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102 relations: Alexandria, Virginia, Azadi march, Baltimore Afro-American, Baltimore Heritage, Bed-Ins For Peace, Bernard Lafayette, Bernice Fisher, Bernie Sanders, Bishop College, C. T. Vivian, Chicago, Civil and political rights, Civil Rights Act of 1964, Civil rights movement, Clara Luper, Columbus, Ohio, Concepcion Picciotto, Congress of Industrial Organizations, Congress of Racial Equality, Democratic Workers Party, Desegregation, Dharna, Diane Nash, Die-in, Direct action, Durham, North Carolina, F. W. Woolworth Company, Father Divine, Fellowship of Reconciliation, Friendship College, Friendship Nine, George Beadle, Greensboro sit-ins, Greensboro, North Carolina, Historically black colleges and universities, HuffPost, Human Be-In, Imran Khan, Inqilab March, International Peace Mission movement, James Bevel, James Farmer, Jim Crow laws, John Lennon, Joseph A. Califano Jr., Judith Heumann, Julius (restaurant), Kitty Cone, Labor unions in the United States, Ladies' Home Journal, ..., Lexington Avenue, LGBT, Lock-on (protest tactic), Lunch counter, Marshall, Texas, Mattachine Society, McCrory Stores, Melvin B. Tolson, Morgan State University, Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri, NAACP Youth Council, Nashville sit-ins, Nawaz Sharif, New York City, North Carolina, NPR, Occupation (protest), Occupy movement, Oklahoma City, Old Harrison County Courthouse (Marshall, Texas), Orlando nightclub shooting, Pakistan Awami Tehrik, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, Paul Ryan, Picketing, Politico, Protest, Raasta roko, Racial segregation in the United States, Robin Morgan, Rock Hill, South Carolina, S. H. Kress & Co., Samuel Wilbert Tucker, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, Sisterhood Is Powerful, Sitdown strike, Strike action, Sweatt v. Painter, Teach-in, Temple University, The Baltimore Sun, The New York Times, United States House of Representatives, United States House of Representatives Democratic Caucus, University of Chicago, Voting Rights Act of 1965, White Citizens Parties, Wichita, Kansas, Wiley College, Work-in, Yoko Ono, 504 Sit-in. Expand index (52 more) »
Alexandria, Virginia
Alexandria is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States.
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Azadi march
The Azadi march, also known as the tsunami march (آزادی مارچ, lit. "freedom march"), was a protest march in Pakistan from 14 August to 17 December 2014.
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Baltimore Afro-American
The Baltimore Afro-American, commonly known as The Afro, is a weekly newspaper published in Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
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Baltimore Heritage
Baltimore Heritage is an American nonprofit historic-preservation organization headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland.
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Bed-Ins For Peace
As the Vietnam War raged in 1969, John Lennon and his wife Yoko Ono held two week-long Bed-Ins for Peace, one at the Hilton Hotel in Amsterdam and one at Fairmont The Queen Elizabeth in Montreal, each of which were intended to be non-violent protests against wars, and experimental tests of new ways to promote peace.
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Bernard Lafayette
Bernard Lafayette (or LaFayette), Jr. (born July 29, 1940) is a longtime civil rights activist and organizer, who was a leader in the Civil Rights Movement.
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Bernice Fisher
Elsie Bernice Fisher (December 8, 1916 – May 2, 1966), known as Bernice Fisher, was a civil rights activist and union organizer.
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Bernie Sanders
Bernard Sanders (born September 8, 1941) is an American politician serving as the junior United States Senator from Vermont since 2007.
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Bishop College
Bishop College was an historically black college, founded in Marshall, Texas, United States, in 1881 by the Baptist Home Mission Society.
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C. T. Vivian
Cordy Tindell Vivian, usually known as C. T. Vivian (born July 30, 1924), is a minister, author, and was a close friend and lieutenant of Martin Luther King Jr. during the Civil Rights Movement.
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Chicago
Chicago, officially the City of Chicago, is the third most populous city in the United States, after New York City and Los Angeles.
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Civil and political rights
Civil and political rights are a class of rights that protect individuals' freedom from infringement by governments, social organizations, and private individuals.
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Civil Rights Act of 1964
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is a landmark civil rights and US labor law in the United States that outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
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Civil rights movement
The civil rights movement (also known as the African-American civil rights movement, American civil rights movement and other terms) was a decades-long movement with the goal of securing legal rights for African Americans that other Americans already held.
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Clara Luper
Clara Shepard Luper (born Clara Mae Shepard May 3, 1923 – June 8, 2011) was a civic leader, retired schoolteacher, and a pioneering leader in the American Civil Rights Movement.
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Columbus, Ohio
Columbus is the state capital and the most populous city in Ohio.
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Concepcion Picciotto
Concepción Picciotto (born María de la Inmaculada Concepción Martín; 15 January 1936 – 25 January 2016), also known as Conchita or Connie, was a Spanish-born, United States-based peace activist.
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Congress of Industrial Organizations
The Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) was a federation of unions that organized workers in industrial unions in the United States and Canada from 1935 to 1955.
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Congress of Racial Equality
The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) is an African-American civil rights organization in the United States that played a pivotal role for African Americans in the Civil Rights Movement.
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Democratic Workers Party
The Democratic Workers Party was a United States Marxist-Leninist party based in California headed by former professor Marlene Dixon, lasting from 1974–2008.
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Desegregation
Desegregation is the process of ending the separation of two groups usually referring to races.
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Dharna
A dharna (Hindi: धरना, Nepali:धर्ना; Urdu: دهرنا) is a non-violent sit-in protest, which may include fast undertaken at the door of an offender, especially a debtor, in India as a means of obtaining compliance with a demand for justice, state response of criminal cases, or payment of a debt.
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Diane Nash
Diane Judith Nash (born May 15, 1938) is an American civil rights activist, and a leader and strategist of the student wing of the Civil Rights Movement.
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Die-in
A die-in, sometimes known as a lie-in, is a form of protest in which participants simulate being dead.
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Direct action
Direct action occurs when a group takes an action which is intended to reveal an existing problem, highlight an alternative, or demonstrate a possible solution to a social issue.
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Durham, North Carolina
Durham is a city in the U.S. state of North Carolina.
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F. W. Woolworth Company
The F. W. Woolworth Company (often referred to as Woolworth's or Woolworth) was a retail company and one of the original pioneers of the five-and-dime store.
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Father Divine
Father Divine (c. 1876September 10, 1965), also known as Reverend M. J. Divine, was an African American spiritual leader from about 1907 until his death.
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Fellowship of Reconciliation
The Fellowship of Reconciliation (FoR or FOR) is the name used by a number of religious nonviolent organizations, particularly in English-speaking countries.
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Friendship College
Friendship College is a former college that lasted from 1891–1981.
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Friendship Nine
The Friendship Nine, or Rock Hill Nine, was a group of African-American men who went to jail after staging a sit-in at a segregated McCrory's lunch counter in Rock Hill, South Carolina in 1961.
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George Beadle
George Wells Beadle (October 22, 1903 – June 9, 1989) was an American scientist in the field of genetics, and Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Nobel laureate who with Edward Tatum discovered the role of genes in regulating biochemical events within cells in 1958.
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Greensboro sit-ins
The Greensboro sit-ins were a series of nonviolent protests in Greensboro, North Carolina, in 1960,, history, Retrieved February 25, 2015 which led to the Woolworth department store chain removing its policy of racial segregation in the Southern United States.
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Greensboro, North Carolina
Greensboro (formerly Greensborough) is a city in the U.S. state of North Carolina.
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Historically black colleges and universities
Historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) are institutions of higher education in the United States that were established before the Civil Rights Act of 1964 with the intention of primarily serving the African-American community.
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HuffPost
HuffPost (formerly The Huffington Post and sometimes abbreviated HuffPo) is a liberal American news and opinion website and blog that has both localized and international editions.
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Human Be-In
The Human Be-In was an event in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park Polo Fields on January 14, 1967.
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Imran Khan
Imran Ahmad Khan Niazi PP, HI (born 5 October 1952) is the Chairman of Pakistan Movement of Justice and the candidate for the Prime Minister of Pakistan in the upcoming Pakistani general election, 2018.
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Inqilab March
The Inqilab March (انقلاب مارچ) (English: March for Revolution) was a public protest by the Pakistan Awami Tehrik (PAT) Party occurring in August and September 2014.
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International Peace Mission movement
The International Peace Mission movement is a religious movement started by Father Divine, an African American, who claimed to be God.
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James Bevel
James Luther Bevel (October 19, 1936 – December 19, 2008) was a minister and leader of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States.
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James Farmer
James Leonard Farmer Jr. (January 12, 1920 – July 9, 1999) was a civil rights activist and leader in the Civil Rights Movement "who pushed for nonviolent protest to dismantle segregation, and served alongside Martin Luther King Jr." He was the initiator and organizer of the 1961 Freedom Ride, which eventually led to the desegregation of interstate transportation in the United States.
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Jim Crow laws
Jim Crow laws were state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States.
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John Lennon
John Winston Ono Lennon (9 October 19408 December 1980) was an English singer, songwriter, and peace activist who co-founded the Beatles, the most commercially successful band in the history of popular music.
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Joseph A. Califano Jr.
Joseph Anthony Califano Jr. (born May 15, 1931) is a former United States Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare and the founder and chairman of The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University (CASAColumbia), an evidence-based research organization.
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Judith Heumann
Judith E. "Judy" Heumann (born 1947) is an American disability rights activist.
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Julius (restaurant)
Julius, located at 159 West 10th Street at Waverly Place, is a tavern in Manhattan's Greenwich Village neighborhood in New York City.
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Kitty Cone
Kitty Cone (April 7, 1944 – March 21, 2015) was an American disability rights activist.
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Labor unions in the United States
Labor unions in the United States are organizations that represent workers in many industries recognized under US labor law.
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Ladies' Home Journal
Ladies' Home Journal is an American magazine published by the Meredith Corporation.
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Lexington Avenue
Lexington Avenue, often colloquially abbreviated as "Lex", is an avenue on the East Side of the borough of Manhattan in New York City that carries southbound one-way traffic from East 131st Street to Gramercy Park at East 21st Street.
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LGBT
LGBT, or GLBT, is an initialism that stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender.
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Lock-on (protest tactic)
A lock-on is a technique used by peaceful protesters to make it difficult to remove them from their place of protest.
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Lunch counter
A lunch counter (also known as a luncheonette) is a small restaurant, much like a diner, where the patron sits on a stool on one side of the counter and the server or person preparing the food serves from the other side of the counter, where the kitchen or limited food preparation area is.
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Marshall, Texas
Marshall is a city in and the county seat of Harrison County in northeastern Texas in the United States.
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Mattachine Society
The Mattachine Society, founded in 1950, was one of the earliest LGBT (gay rights) organizations in the United States, probably second only to Chicago's Society for Human Rights.
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McCrory Stores
McCrory Stores or J.G. McCrory's was a chain of five and dime stores in the United States based in York, Pennsylvania.
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Melvin B. Tolson
Melvin Beaunorus Tolson (February 6, 1898 – August 29, 1966) was an American poet, educator, columnist, and politician.
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Morgan State University
Morgan State University (commonly referred to as MSU, Morgan State, or Morgan) is a Maryland's designated public urban research university and the largest Maryland's American historically black college and university (HBCU) located in Baltimore, Maryland.
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Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri
Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri (محمد طاہر القادری‎; born 19 February 1951) is a Pakistani-Canadian politician and Sunni Islamic scholar.
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NAACP Youth Council
The NAACP Youth Council is a branch of the NAACP in which youth are actively involved.
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Nashville sit-ins
The Nashville sit-ins, which lasted from February 13 to May 10, 1960, were part of a nonviolent direct action campaign to end racial segregation at lunch counters in downtown Nashville, Tennessee.
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Nawaz Sharif
Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif (Urdu/میاں محمد نواز شریف, born 25 December 1949) is a Pakistani business magnate and former politician who has served as the Prime Minister of Pakistan for three non-consecutive terms, all of the three terms were unsuccessful.
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New York City
The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.
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North Carolina
North Carolina is a U.S. state in the southeastern region of the United States.
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NPR
National Public Radio (usually shortened to NPR, stylized as npr) is an American privately and publicly funded non-profit membership media organization based in Washington, D.C. It serves as a national syndicator to a network of over 1,000 public radio stations in the United States.
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Occupation (protest)
As an act of protest, occupation is a strategy often used by social movements and other forms of collective social action in order to take and hold public and symbolic spaces, buildings, critical infrastructure such as entrances to train stations, shopping centers, university buildings, squares, and parks.
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Occupy movement
The Occupy movement is an international socio-political movement against social and economic inequality and the lack of "real democracy" around the world.
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Oklahoma City
Oklahoma City, often shortened to OKC, is the capital and largest city of the U.S. state of Oklahoma.
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Old Harrison County Courthouse (Marshall, Texas)
The Old Harrison County Courthouse is located in the center of Whetstone Square in Marshall, Texas and is one of the most famous and admired buildings in Texas.
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Orlando nightclub shooting
On, 2016, Omar Mateen, a 29-year-old security guard, killed 49 people and wounded 53 others in a terrorist attack inside Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, United States.
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Pakistan Awami Tehrik
The Pakistan Awami Tehreek commonly known as PAT (پاکستان عوامی تحريک) (Pakistan People's Movement) is a political party in Pakistan, founded by Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri, took part in general elections in 1990 and 2002.
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Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) (پاکستان تحريک انصاف, English: Pakistan Movement for Justice) is a political party in Pakistan founded in 1996 by former national cricket captain Imran Khan.
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Paul Ryan
Paul Davis Ryan Jr. (born January 29, 1970) is an American politician serving as the 54th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives since 2015.
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Picketing
Picketing is a form of protest in which people (called picketers) congregate outside a place of work or location where an event is taking place.
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Politico
Politico, known earlier as The Politico, is an American political journalism company based in Arlington County, Virginia, that covers politics and policy in the United States and internationally.
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Protest
A protest (also called a remonstrance, remonstration or demonstration) is an expression of bearing witness on behalf of an express cause by words or actions with regard to particular events, policies or situations.
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Raasta roko
Raasta roko ("obstruct the road") is a form of protest commonly practised in India.
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Racial segregation in the United States
Racial segregation in the United States, as a general term, includes the segregation or separation of access to facilities, services, and opportunities such as housing, medical care, education, employment, and transportation along racial lines.
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Robin Morgan
Robin Morgan (born January 29, 1941) is an American poet, author, political theorist and activist, journalist, lecturer, and former child actor.
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Rock Hill, South Carolina
Rock Hill is the largest city in York County, South Carolina, United States and the fifth-largest city in the state.
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S. H. Kress & Co.
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Samuel Wilbert Tucker
Samuel Wilbert Tucker (June 18, 1913 – October 19, 1990) was an American lawyer and a cooperating attorney with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
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Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act
Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Pub.
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Sisterhood Is Powerful
Sisterhood Is Powerful: An Anthology of Writings from the Women's Liberation Movement is a 1970 anthology of radical feminist writings edited by Robin Morgan, a feminist poet and founding member of New York Radical Women.
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Sitdown strike
A sit-down strike is a labor strike and a form of civil disobedience in which an organized group of workers, usually employed at factories or other centralized locations, take unauthorized or illegal possession of the workplace by "sitting down" at their stations.
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Strike action
Strike action, also called labor strike, labour strike, or simply strike, is a work stoppage caused by the mass refusal of employees to work.
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Sweatt v. Painter
Sweatt v. Painter, 339 U.S. 629 (1950), was a U.S. Supreme Court case that successfully challenged the "separate but equal" doctrine of racial segregation established by the 1896 case Plessy v. Ferguson.
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Teach-in
A teach-in is similar to a general educational forum on any complicated issue, usually an issue involving current political affairs.
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Temple University
Temple University (Temple or TU) is a state-related research university located in the Cecil B. Moore neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
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The Baltimore Sun
The Baltimore Sun is the largest general-circulation daily newspaper based in the American state of Maryland and provides coverage of local and regional news, events, issues, people, and industries.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.
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United States House of Representatives
The United States House of Representatives is the lower chamber of the United States Congress, the Senate being the upper chamber.
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United States House of Representatives Democratic Caucus
The House Democratic Caucus nominates and elects the Democratic Party leadership in the United States House of Representatives.
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University of Chicago
The University of Chicago (UChicago, U of C, or Chicago) is a private, non-profit research university in Chicago, Illinois.
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Voting Rights Act of 1965
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is a landmark piece of federal legislation in the United States that prohibits racial discrimination in voting.
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White Citizens Parties
The White Citizens Parties were autonomous local parties (often county based) in the greater Southern United States, that served as the public face and often directly as what would today be considered Political Action Committees for racist organizations like the Ku Klux Klan.
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Wichita, Kansas
Wichita is the largest city in the U.S. state of Kansas.
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Wiley College
Wiley College is a four-year, private, historically black, liberal arts college located on the west side of Marshall, Texas.
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Work-in
A work-in is a form of direct action under which workers whose jobs are under threat resolve to remain in their place of employment and to continue producing, without pay.
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Yoko Ono
Yoko Ono (小野 洋子, born February 18, 1933) is a Japanese multimedia artist, singer, songwriter, and peace activist who is also known for her work in performance art and filmmaking.
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504 Sit-in
The 504 Sit-in was a disability rights protest that began on April 5, 1977.
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References
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