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In an effort to stop the implementation of Brown v. Board through terrorism, 16-yr-old John Earl Reese was killed in Mayflower, Texas.
Themes: African American, Education, Racism & Racial Identity
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The Chicago Public School Boycott, also known as Freedom Day, was a mass boycott and demonstration against the segregationist policies.
Themes: African American, Civil Rights Movements, Democracy & Citizenship, Education
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Successful African American entrepreneur, landowner, and community leader Anthony P. Crawford was murdered by a lynch mob.
Themes: African American, Democracy & Citizenship, Racism & Racial Identity
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The Southern Conference on Race Relations (SCRR) was held in Durham, NC to address dichotomy between African American soldiers fighting overseas in the name of democracy while in the U.S. they were facing racial violence and being denied basic human rights.
Themes: African American, Civil Rights Movements, Democracy & Citizenship, Racism & Racial Identity
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For the first time, African Americans were elected to the House of Representatives in 1870.
Themes: African American, Reconstruction, Democracy & Citizenship, Laws & Citizen Rights
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The Persons Case, a legal milestone in Canada, established the right of women to sit in the Senate of Canada.
Themes: Democracy & Citizenship, Women's History
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Filipino American History Month is celebrated in the United States during the month of October.
Themes: Asian American
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U.S. troops raised the U.S. flag over Puerto Rico.
Themes: Wars & Related Anti-War Movements
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Marie Equi entered San Quentin prison to serve a one-year term for her anti-war protests.
Themes: Wars & Related Anti-War Movements
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Tommie Smith and John Carlos made a symbolic protest while the U.S. national anthem was played in the Olympics.
Themes: African American, Civil Rights Movements, Racism & Racial Identity, Sports
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An abolitionist raid against a federal armory in Harpers Ferry, WV -- in an attempt to start an armed revolt against the institution of slavery.
Themes: Democracy & Citizenship, Organizing, Slavery and Resistance
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The Black Panther Party sought justice for African Americans and other oppressed communities through a combination of revolutionary theory, education, and community programs.
Themes: African American, Democracy & Citizenship, Organizing, Racism & Racial Identity
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The Clayton Antitrust Act sought to end practices that limited competition throughout the economy.
Themes: Economics, Labor
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As a sophomore, Paul Robeson was excluded from the Rutgers Football team because another team refused to play against a Black player.
Themes: African American, Racism & Racial Identity, Sports
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Labor and cultural activist Ben Katz was born.
Themes: Art & Music
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The White House cornerstone was laid. Among those who constructed the building were African Americans, both free and enslaved.
Themes: Slavery and Resistance
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A small band of striking coal miners in southern Illinois called out Chicago coal barons and stood their ground at Virden.
Themes: Economics, Labor, Organizing
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An uprising took place at a D.C. jail to protest conditions.
Themes: African American, Laws & Citizen Rights, Racism & Racial Identity
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Aleut women from the Pribilof Islands Program wrote a petition about the dangerous internment camp conditions.
Themes: Democracy & Citizenship, Native American, Wars & Related Anti-War Movements
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