An employee of the U.S. Senate, Kate Brown found political support from Sen. Charles Sumner and others in Congress when she was violently removed from the ladies' car, which was segregated illegally.
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Carter G. Woodson initiated the first celebration of Negro History Week which led to Black History Month.
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American Indian Movement (AIM) organizer Leonard Peltier was arrested in 1976 for a crime he says he did not commit. He remained imprisoned for nearly 50 years, despite international campaigns and calls for his release,
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The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) sent four volunteers to Rock Hill, South Carolina to sit-in.
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In 1951, the Commonwealth of Virginia executed seven Black men despite a national campaign in their defense.
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Two African American brothers — Charles and Alphonso Ferguson — were shot and killed by a white police officer in the segregated Freeport neighborhood of Long Island, New York.
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Congressman Thaddeus Stevens offered an amendment to the Freedmen's Bureau Bill to authorize the distribution of public land.
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When the United States refused to recognize Philippine independence, Philippine Republic president Emilio Aguinaldo declared war.
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More than 450,000 New York City school children boycotted school as part of a protest for quality schools for Black and Latino students.
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The 15th Amendment to the United States Constitution officially granted African American men the right to vote.
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Walter H. Williams was the first Black teacher appointed to a Freedmen’s Bureau School in Lafayette Parish, Louisiana during Reconstruction.
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In Norfolk, where schools had been closed for months rather than desegregate, 17 African American students began attending six previously all-white middle and high schools on February 2, 1959.
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The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was signed, ending the U.S. Mexico War and extending the boundaries of the United States west to the Pacific Ocean.
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Hatuey was a freedom fighter in the early 1500s who mobilized Caribbean islanders against invasion, theft, and murder by European conquistadors.
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Four African-American North Carolina A&T University students began a sit-in protest at a Woolworth’s whites-only lunch counter.
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Louis Allen, a WWII veteran who witnessed and was willing to testify about the murder of a voting rights worker in Mississippi, was murdered.
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Tenayuca was known as “La Pasionaria de Texas” for her commitment to justice for Mexican American laborers.
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During the Reconstruction Era, people emancipated from slavery searched for their loved ones throughout the United States and Canada. They often used "last seen" ads. This is one case of successful reunification.
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U.S. Senator Cragin spoke against delaying the expansion of suffrage. He countered the statements by white Democrats, saying the real reason they were opposed to Black suffrage was because they could not control the votes.
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President Andrew Jackson used federal troops to suppress worker organizing.
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