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The 15th Amendment to the United States Constitution officially granted African American men the right to vote.
Themes: African American, Reconstruction, Democracy & Citizenship, Laws & Citizen Rights
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Hatuey was a freedom fighter in the early 1500s who mobilized Caribbean islanders against invasion, theft, and murder by European conquistadors.
Themes: World History/Global Studies
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The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was signed, ending the U.S. Mexico War and extending the boundaries of the United States west to the Pacific Ocean.
Themes: Imperialism, Latinx, US Foreign Policy, Wars & Related Anti-War Movements
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Four African-American North Carolina A&T University students, began a sit-in protest at a Woolworth's whites-only lunch counter.
Themes: African American, Civil Rights Movements, Democracy & Citizenship
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Louis Allen, a WWII veteran who witnessed and was willing to testify about the murder of a voting rights worker in Mississippi, was murdered.
Themes: African American, Democracy & Citizenship, Wars & Related Anti-War Movements
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Tenayuca was known as “La Pasionaria de Texas” for her commitment to justice for Mexican American laborers.
Themes: Labor, Latinx, Women's History
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During the Reconstruction Era, people emancipated from slavery searched for their loved ones throughout the United States and Canada. They often used "last seen" ads. This is one case of successful reunification.
Themes: African American, Reconstruction, Slavery and Resistance
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President Andrew Jackson used federal troops to suppress worker organizing.
Themes: Labor, Organizing
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Fifteen Mexican-Americans were killed by Texas Rangers during the Porvenir Massacre.
Themes: Democracy & Citizenship, Latinx, Laws & Citizen Rights
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A protest of the toxic chemical "baths" required for all workers coming across the U.S.-Mexico border, led by 17-year-old Carmelita Torres.
Themes: Immigration, Latinx, Women's History
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Several hundred citizens of Marshall, Michigan, helped Adam and Sarah Crosswhite escape slavery and kidnapping and flee to Canada.
Themes: African American, Slavery and Resistance
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Angela Davis is a civil rights activist, writer, and retired professor.
Themes: African American, Democracy & Citizenship, Women's History
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The U.S. War Department authorized the governor of Massachusetts to recruit Black troops to the Union Army in the Civil War.
Themes: African American, Democracy & Citizenship, Wars & Related Anti-War Movements
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A. Philip Randolph, president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters union, made the official call for a march on Washington, with the demand to end segregation in defense industries.
Themes: African American, Democracy & Citizenship, Labor, Wars & Related Anti-War Movements
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Shirley Chisholm, the first Black woman elected to Congress, opened her historic campaign for President.
Themes: African American, Democracy & Citizenship, Women's History
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Arturo Alfonso Schomburg, bibliophile, collector, writer, who spent his life championing Black history.
Themes: African American, Education, Latinx
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Patricia Stephens Due was arrested in the segregated lobby of the Florida Theater in Tallahassee.
Themes: Civil Rights Movements
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Mr. Willie Edwards Jr., a 24-year-old African American man, was murdered by members of the Alabama KKK.
Themes: African American, Racism & Racial Identity
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The government of El Salvador launched a murderous, anti-indigenous and anti-leftist campaign that led to the deaths of 30,000 Salvadorans.
Themes: Native American, Racism & Racial Identity, World History/Global Studies
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