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Abolitionist and suffragist Harriet Tubman, perhaps the most famous conductor for the Underground Railroad, engineered her first rescue mission in Dec. 1850.
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The United States invaded Panama in "Operation Just Cause."
Themes: Imperialism, US Foreign Policy, Wars & Related Anti-War Movements, World History/Global Studies
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After a 381 day boycott, a federal ruling declared the Alabama laws requiring segregated buses to be unconstitutional.
Themes: African American, Civil Rights Movements, Democracy & Citizenship, Laws & Citizen Rights
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Kansas reservist Dr Yolanda Huet-Vaughn refused orders to serve in the first Gulf War (Desert Storm).
Themes: Democracy & Citizenship, US Foreign Policy, Wars & Related Anti-War Movements
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Tim DeChristopher of Peaceful Uprising protested a Bureau of Land Management auction of public land in Utah's redrock country.
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The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Korematsu v. United States that the denial of civil liberties based on race and national origin was legal.
Themes: Asian American, Democracy & Citizenship, Laws & Citizen Rights
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Secretary of State William H. Seward declared the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution to have been adopted.
Themes: African American, Democracy & Citizenship, Racism & Racial Identity, Slavery
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Richard Nixon initiated a massive "carpet bombing" campaign in Northern Vietnam and mainly Hanoi.
Themes: Imperialism, US Foreign Policy, Wars & Related Anti-War Movements, World History/Global Studies
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A group of students wore black armbands to school to protest the war in Vietnam. The school board got wind of the protest and passed a preemptive ban.
Themes: Democracy & Citizenship, Wars & Related Anti-War Movements
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The first 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution, known as the United States Bill of Rights, were ratified.
Themes: Democracy & Citizenship, Laws & Citizen Rights, Racism & Racial Identity, Slavery, Social Class
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The "civil war" in El Salvador officially ended, but other struggles following, including to protect the land and water from gold mining.
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Wilma Mankiller took office as Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma.
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U.S. peace activist and suffragist Kate O'Hare was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment for a speech denouncing WWI.
Themes: US Foreign Policy, Wars & Related Anti-War Movements, Women's History
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Ella Baker was a civil rights and human rights activist beginning in the 1930s whose career spanned more than five decades.
Themes: African American, Democracy & Citizenship, Organizing
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Joseph H. Rainey, from South Carolina, was the first African-American to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives.
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"The primary cause of the Houston riot was the habitual brutality of the white police officers of Houston in their treatment of colored people." —The Crisis magazine.
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The Treaty of Paris was signed, ending the Spanish-American War,
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P. B. S. Pinchback of Louisiana become the first Black governor in the U.S.
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The Georgia Constitutional Convention was held with 33 African Americans and 137 whites.
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People who had escaped from slavery and were following the Union Army, were blocked from crossing the Ebenezer Creek, leading to their death.
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