• Garner v. Louisiana, 368 U.S. 157 (1961), was a landmark case argued by Thurgood Marshall before the US Supreme Court. On December 11, 1961, the court...
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  • Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483 (1954), was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that U.S. state laws establishing...
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    Supreme Court ruled school segregation unconstitutional in 1954 in Brown v. Board of Education, Southern Democrats began a campaign of "massive resistance"...
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  • having been expressly overruled until Bob Jones University v. United States. In 1890, the Louisiana State Legislature passed a law called the Separate Car...
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    Law Day Address Freedom Rides Anniston bombing Birmingham attack Garner v. Louisiana Albany Movement Cambridge movement University of Chicago sit-ins...
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  • Loving v. Virginia, 388 U.S. 1 (1967), was a landmark civil rights decision of the U.S. Supreme Court which ruled that laws banning interracial marriage...
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    Allegations Regarding the Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr – VII. King V. Jowers Conspiracy Allegations". United States Department of Justice. June...
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    child to attend formerly whites-only William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana during the New Orleans school desegregation crisis on November 14, 1960...
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    Malcolm X)'". The New York Times. Retrieved June 19, 2018. Romano, Frederick V. (2004). The Boxing Filmography: American Features, 1920–2003. Jefferson,...
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    copyright. This led to a lawsuit, Estate of Martin Luther King, Jr., Inc. v. CBS, Inc., which established that the King estate did hold copyright over...
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    Law Day Address Freedom Rides Anniston bombing Birmingham attack Garner v. Louisiana Albany Movement Cambridge movement University of Chicago sit-ins...
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    Sit-in led to Garner v. Louisiana (1961) case. Led by James Blake and occurred at the Kress store on King Street. Sit-in led to Bell v. Maryland (1964)...
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    Robert Altman's jazz age drama Kansas City (1996), the latter of which garnered him the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actor. He...
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    including Smith v. Allwright, Morgan v. Virginia, Shelley v. Kraemer, McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents, Sweatt v. Painter, Brown, and Cooper v. Aaron. His...
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    deeply saddened and angry at the news, particularly because Till's case had garnered much more attention than any of the cases she and the Montgomery NAACP...
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  • increased after the United States Supreme Court's 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education to end segregation in public education, which it ruled...
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    authorship attribution to the white Anglo-American songwriter, Reverend Marvin V. Frey. Frey (1918–1992) said he wrote the song circa 1936 under the title...
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    children, during which he wore the same clothes as he did on Bloody Sunday, garnering thousands of con goers to participate. The event became so popular it...
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    President Dwight D. Eisenhower. The U.S. Supreme Court issued its historic Brown v. Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483, on May 17, 1954. Tied to the Fourteenth...
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  • Law Day Address Freedom Rides Anniston bombing Birmingham attack Garner v. Louisiana Albany Movement Cambridge movement University of Chicago sit-ins...
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  • Ray Liotta. The song was mixed with You Can't Be A Beacon by The Masters V (Later: J.D. Sumner and the Stamps) in 1988. The song was sampled throughout...
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    President Roosevelt as well as fellow Texans such as vice president John Nance Garner and congressman Sam Rayburn. On November 17, 1934, Johnson married Claudia...
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    17. Reviews were generally positive, with Colman Domingo's performance garnering numerous accolades including Best Actor nominations for the Academy Award...
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  • Invisible Activists: Women of the Louisiana NAACP and the Struggle for Civil Rights, 1915–1945. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press. 2007. Schneider...
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    all the time. My hand didn't shake but inside I was shaking." In 1963, Louisiana state troopers hunted for Farmer door to door for trying to organize protests...
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    attended or helped fund the March in support of the cause: Tony Curtis, James Garner, Robert Ryan, Charlton Heston, Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Rita Moreno...
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    protected class. In response to the Supreme Court's 1986 decision in Bowers v. Hardwick that there was no constitutional right to engage in consensual sodomy...
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