Ida B. Wells stood up to injustice by refusing to change seats on a segregated Chesapeake, Ohio & Southwestern Railroad train, leading to a legal battle over racially discriminatory laws.
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Educator and civil rights organizer Septima Clark was born in South Carolina.
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In disciplined groups and singing freedom songs, students “ditch” class to march for justice and fill the jails.
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Amidst a looming “garbage crisis” in Washington, D.C., on May 1, 1970, 1,700 sanitation workers went on strike to demand an end to racial discrimination, unsafe working conditions, low pay, and unequal pick-up routes.
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International Workers’ Day began as a commemoration of the 1886 Haymarket massacre in Chicago.
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White civilians and police killed 46 African Americans and injured many more while burning houses, schools, and churches in Memphis, Tennessee.
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. made a speech criticizing the Vietnam War and praising Muhammad Ali.
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The Bristol Bus Boycott began in England, inspired by the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
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Nobel Prize-winner Linus Pauling and Ava Helen Pauling joined a march in front of the White House to protest the resumption of U.S. atmospheric nuclear testing.
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