Freedom Riders traveling from New Orleans, Louisiana to Jackson, Mississippi were arrested in 1961.
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Homer Plessy was arrested for violating Louisiana’s Separate Car Act.
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Air Force veteran James Meredith began the March Against Fear from Memphis, Tennessee to Jackson, Mississippi.
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Approximately ninety-six Africans held captive on the British slave ship Little George revolted against the ship’s captain and crew, eventually taking control of the entire ship.
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The CDC published a medical study about five gay men, plagued by a mysterious autoimmune disease (AIDS), in June 1981.
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The Supreme Court ruled in favor of the plaintiffs in three cases that weakened the structure of legalized segregation.
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The Colored Monitor Union Club organized and released their address for equal rights in Norkfolk, Virginia, soon after the Civil War ended.
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Approximately 10,000 Haitian farmers protested the donation of 475 tons of Monsanto hybrid seeds.
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African American athletes gathered to support Muhammed Ali’s refusal to serve in Vietnam.
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Congress passed the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution.
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SCOTUS ruled against Jim Crow segregation on interstate commerce in Morgan v. Commonwealth of Virginia, leading to Journey of Reconciliation Freedom Rides.
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White U.S. servicemen and police entered a majority-Mexican American neighborhood in East Los Angeles and attacked and detained hundreds of young people in the “zoot suit riots.”
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Harriet Tubman planned and guided a significant armed raid (becoming the first woman to do so in the Civil War) against Confederate forces, supply depots, and plantations along the Combahee River in coastal South Carolina.
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Drum and Spear was founded by SNCC organizers in Washington, D.C. The bookstore quickly became a central hub of knowledge to “disseminate information by and about Black people in the African Diaspora.”
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The Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW) was founded in New York.
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Bringing an end to the Navajo Wars, the Navajo Treaty of 1868 created a sovereign nation for the Navajo peoples and returned those interned at Fort Sumner following the Long Walk.
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In one of countless white supremacist massacres in U.S. history, white supremacists destroyed a thriving Black community in Oklahoma, known today as the Tulsa Massacre.
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Fred Korematsu was arrested on a street corner in San Leandro, California for resisting Executive Order 9066, in which all people of Japanese descent were incarcerated in U.S. concentration camps.
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The Chicago Police Department shot and killed ten unarmed demonstrators in Chicago on Memorial Day.
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