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The Supreme Court ruled 7-2 in Tinker v. Des Moines that students do not “shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.”
Themes: Democracy & Citizenship, Education, Laws & Citizen Rights, Wars & Related Anti-War Movements
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W. E. B. Du Bois, sociologist, historian, Pan-Africanist, author, and editor, was one of the most important scholars of the 20th century.
Themes: African American, Democracy & Citizenship, Education, Laws & Citizen Rights, Racism & Racial Identity
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Sam Lovejoy, slipped onto the Montague Plains and sabotaged the 500 foot weather tower Northeast Utilities had erected to test wind direction at the site.
Themes: Environment
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Student activists Sophie Scholl, Hans Scholl, and Christoph Probst were executed for urging students to rise up and overthrow the Nazi government.
Themes: Democracy & Citizenship, Wars & Related Anti-War Movements
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Frazier Baker, first Black postmaster in South Carolina, and his baby daughter were shot and killed when they attempted to flee their burning home.
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El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz (Malcolm X) was assassinated, just weeks after speaking in Selma.
Themes: African American, Civil Rights Movements, Racism & Racial Identity
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Patricia Stephens Due was arrested for a sit-in in Florida and refused to pay bail.
Themes: African American, Civil Rights Movements
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Teachers and administrators from the Florida Education Association (FEA) walked out in what is reported to be the first statewide teachers' strike.
Themes: Civil Rights Movements, Education, Labor, Organizing
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Executive Order 9066 issued by President Roosevelt authorized the incarceration (internment) of U.S. citizens of Japanese descent.
Themes: Asian American, Democracy & Citizenship, Laws & Citizen Rights, Racism & Racial Identity, Wars & Related Anti-War Movements
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The Union Army moved into Charleston, S.C., the the city where the Civil War had begun four years earlier.
Themes: African American, Reconstruction
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The courts ruled in favor of the Mendez family and their co-plaintiffs in California, finding segregated schools to an unconstitutional.
Themes: Democracy & Citizenship, Education, Latinx, Laws & Citizen Rights
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Hercules, the head cook at George Washington’s Mount Vernon estate and slave labor camp, escaped to freedom in Pennsylvania.
Themes: African American, Racism & Racial Identity, Slavery and Resistance
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Huey P. Newton was co-founder of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense.
Themes: African American, Civil Rights Movements, Democracy & Citizenship
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Rubber workers began a sit-down strike at Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. in Akron, Ohio.
Themes: Labor
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U.S. Marshals arrested Shadrach Minkins, who had escaped from slavery in Norfolk, Virginia.
Themes: African American, Democracy & Citizenship, Laws & Citizen Rights, Slavery and Resistance
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Benjamin Roberts, African American, filed the first school desegregation suit after his daughter Sarah was barred from a public school because of her race in Boston, Massachusetts.
Themes: African American, Democracy & Citizenship, Education
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The Wisconsin Workers strike involved as many as 100,000 protesters opposing the 2011 Wisconsin Act 10.
Themes: Economics, Labor, Organizing
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Belinda Sutton petitioned the Massachusetts legislature for a pension as reparations for the wealth she produced and was stolen from her while she was enslaved.
Themes: African American, Racism & Racial Identity, Slavery and Resistance
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Activists circled the White House to protest the Keystone Pipeline, an oil system that transports crude oil from Canada to various locations in the U.S.
Themes: Climate Justice, Environment, Organizing
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The first Southern Negro Youth Conference (SNYC) conference was held in Richmond, Virginia.
Themes: African American, Civil Rights Movements, Democracy & Citizenship, Organizing
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