• Workers for the Scripto company in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, held a labor strike from November 27, 1964, to January 9, 1965. It ended when the company...
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    Hartwell; Hooper, Susan (Fall 1999). "The Scripto Strike: Martin Luther King's 'Valley of Problems': Atlanta, 19641965". Atlanta History: A Journal of Georgia...
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    Malcolm X (category 1965 deaths)
    civil rights movement until his assassination in 1965. A spokesman for the Nation of Islam (NOI) until 1964, after which he left the movement, he was a vocal...
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    February 1, 1968, caused workers to conspire to stage a strike to protest on February 11, 1968. The strike took place the following day, and lasted for over...
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    dominate the U.S. pop charts, Belafonte's commercial success diminished; 1964's Belafonte at The Greek Theatre was his last album to appear in Billboard's...
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    who recorded it in English, German and French (1962); and Johnny Rivers (1965). "If I Had a Hammer" was a hit for Peter, Paul and Mary (1962) and Trini...
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    of Richmond v. J.A. Croson Co., he rejected the majority's decision to strike down an affirmative-action program for government contractors, stating that...
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    The Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Pub. L. 88–352, 78 Stat. 241, enacted July 2, 1964) is a landmark civil rights and labor law in the United States that outlaws...
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    fraternity. He was expelled from Wilberforce in 1936 after organizing a strike, and later attended Cheyney State Teachers College (now Cheyney University...
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  • Party after the 1964 convention, Carmichael decided to leave the MFDP. Instead, he began exploring SNCC projects in Alabama in 1965. During the period...
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    Lyndon B. Johnson (category People of the Dominican Civil War (1965))
    Act 1964: Housing Act 1965: Higher Education Act 1965: Older Americans Act 1965: Coinage Act 1965: Social Security Act 1965: Voting Rights Act 1965: Immigration...
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  • counties had no registered black voters. The Mississippi Freedom Summer of 1964 registered 63,000 black voters in a simplified process administered by the...
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    Luther King Jr, she attended protests as part of the Memphis sanitation strike. She also took part in the Black power movement, attending the Philadelphia...
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    middle of 1964, where the two both blamed each other for making the Civil Rights Movement even more difficult. Martin confessed in a 1965 sermon that...
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    The Selma to Montgomery marches were three protest marches, held in 1965, along the 54-mile (87 km) highway from Selma, Alabama, to the state capital of...
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    enforcement lawsuits.: 233  Between 1965 and the Supreme Court's 2013 decision in Shelby County v. Holder to strike down the coverage formula, the attorney...
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  • church killed four girls and injured between 14 and 22 other people. The 1965 investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation determined the bombing...
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    Biblical prophets. Over a series of national TV interviews between 1964 and 1965, Malcolm X provided testimony of his investigation, corroboration, and...
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  •  292. "The Scripto Strike. Martin Luther King's "Valley of Problems": Atlanta, 1964-1965". Atlanta History. "Corporations: Blacker Ink at Scripto Inc". Time...
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    Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 began to fray. King was becoming more estranged from the Johnson administration. In 1965 he broke with...
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  • on August 20, 2019. Retrieved January 9, 2022. Hartford, Bruce. "Student Strike at Moton High (VA) (April, 1951)". Civil Rights Movement Archive. Civil...
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  • on Structure," November 1964". womhist.alexanderstreet.com. Retrieved 2019-12-17. Mary E. King. Notes; SNCC meeting; Fall, 1965, p. 9. Mary E. King papers...
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    attended Brooklyn College before graduating from the University of Chicago in 1964. While a student, he was a protest organizer for the Congress of Racial Equality...
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    Kaufman, Dan (September 26, 2019). "On the Picket Lines of the General Motors Strike". The New Yorker. Archived from the original on June 3, 2020. Retrieved...
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  • murders Civil Rights Act of 1964 Heart of Atlanta Motel, Inc. v. United States Katzenbach v. McClung 19641965 Scripto strike 1965 Selma to Montgomery marches...
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  • counter to the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause. On October 28, 1964, after waiting almost a year for a response to their motion, the ACLU attorneys...
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    Washington in 1963 and strategized the 1965 Selma to Montgomery marches which contributed to Congressional passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Prior to his...
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    Act of 1964. It preceded the Selma Voting Rights Movement, when national media coverage contributed to passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that same...
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    school desegregation crisis on November 14, 1960. She is the subject of a 1964 painting, The Problem We All Live With, by Norman Rockwell. Bridges was the...
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    Congress had passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, ending legal segregation, and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, authorizing federal enforcement of registration...
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