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The Social Security Act was passed, one of the results of the strength of organized labor and other mass movements of the 1930s.
Themes: Democracy & Citizenship, Disability, Economics, Labor, Laws & Citizen Rights
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Springfield Massacre was committed against African Americans by a mob of about 5,000 white people in Springfield, Illinois.
Themes: African American, Racism & Racial Identity
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Lamar Smith, 63-year-old farmer and WWI veteran, was shot dead in Brookhaven, Mississippi, for urging African Americans to vote.
Themes: African American, Democracy & Citizenship, Laws & Citizen Rights, Racism & Racial Identity
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A group of more than 150 ministers from Washington, D.C. wrote to President William Taft about the Slocum massacre.
Themes: African American, Democracy & Citizenship, Laws & Citizen Rights
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Mae Bertha and Matthew Carter enrolled their children in schools in Sunflower County, Mississippi that had been illegally denied to African Americans. In retaliation, they were evicted from the land they sharecropped and their home was riddled with bullets.
Themes: African American, Democracy & Citizenship, Education
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Hip hop's origins began at a dance party where DJ Kool Herc used two turntables to create a "break beat."
Themes: African American, Art & Music
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Nearly 500 white men destroyed the Noyes Academy (an integrated school) in Canaan, New Hampshire.
Themes: African American, Education, Racism & Racial Identity
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Michael Brown was fatally shot by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri.
Themes: African American, Democracy & Citizenship, Racism & Racial Identity
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The Freedom Schools Convention was held in Mississippi.
Themes: African American, Civil Rights Movements, Democracy & Citizenship
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The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution was passed without a single dissent in the House of Representatives, and only two no votes in the Senate.
Themes: US Foreign Policy, Wars & Related Anti-War Movements
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The MFDP held a State Convention with 2,500 people in Mississippi.
Themes: African American, Civil Rights Movements, Democracy & Citizenship, Laws & Citizen Rights
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The Voting Rights Act was signed into law.
Themes: African American, Civil Rights Movements, Democracy & Citizenship, Laws & Citizen Rights
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The U.S. dropped an atomic bomb for the first time in war over the city of Hiroshima.
Themes: US Foreign Policy, Wars & Related Anti-War Movements, World History/Global Studies
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On election day, in Louisville, Kentucky, Protestant mobs attacked German and Irish Catholic neighborhoods.
Themes: Immigration
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A white supremacist shot and killed six members of the Sikh Temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin.
Themes: Asian American, Racism & Racial Identity
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White workers murdered Black workers in Arkansas who were coming to work on railways.
Themes: African American, Labor, Racism & Racial Identity
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The bodies of three lynched civil rights workers (James Chaney, Michael Schwerner, and Andrew Goodman) were found.
Themes: African American, Civil Rights Movements, Democracy & Citizenship, Racism & Racial Identity
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J. C. Farmer, a 19-year-old African American WWII veteran, was killed by a mob of 20 white men.
Themes: African American, Democracy & Citizenship, Laws & Citizen Rights
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The Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) declared a strike.
Themes: Labor
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James Baldwin was born in Harlem, New York.
Themes: African American, Art & Music, Democracy & Citizenship, Laws & Citizen Rights, Organizing
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