Protesters from the Trail of Broken Treaties Caravan occupied the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) offices in Washington, D.C. for six days.
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Salvador Allende became president of Chile and adopted policies for the social good, such as raising minimum wage and increasing access to health care and education.
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African Americans voters were threatened after the Danville Riot, leading to their loss of political power in this majority African American city in Virginia.
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Robert Smalls was elected to Congress from South Carolina during Reconstruction.
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Deadly election “riots” took place in Barbour County, Alabama against African American politicians and voters.
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Eugene V. Debs received one million votes in the U.S. presidential election while in prison on the Socialist Party ticket.
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More than fifty African Americans killed in the Ocoee Massacre after going to vote in Florida.
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Mississippi adopted a state constitution with poll tax and literacy tests to roll back the gains of the Reconstruction era.
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A labor uprising to protest convict leasing led to the Coal Creek War.
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Luther Jackson was murdered by Philadelphia, Mississippi policeman Lawrence Rainey.
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The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas Corpus Christi found a South Texas school district guilty of discriminating against Mexican-American students in one of the first cases that directly applied the ruling made in Brown v. Board of Education to Mexican-American students.
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Mary McLeod Bethune faced off against the Ku Klux Klan in defense of Black voting rights in Daytona, Florida.
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Reconstruction era protest of racist discrimination on streetcars in Louisville, Kentucky.
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Hurricane Sandy, the largest Atlantic hurricane on record as measured by diameter, wreaked devastation in the Caribbean and United States for more than a week, causing hundreds of deaths and leaving hundreds of thousands homeless and without electricity.
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The Supreme Court ruled that schools in the U.S. had to desegregate “immediately,” instead of the previous ruling of “with all deliberate speed.”
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U.S. officials denied any involvement in the bombing of North Vietnam.
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Two hate crime shootings in one week, one of African American shoppers in Kentucky and the other of Jewish worshippers in Pittsburgh.
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The U.S. Justice Department announced that the prison population topped one million for the first time in U.S. history.
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President George W. Bush signed the USA PATRIOT Act, which rolled back civil liberties for U.S. citizens and immigrants.
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Opening of the Malcolm X Liberation University in Durham, North Carolina.
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