• text related to this article: Harper v. Virginia State Board of Elections Harper v. Virginia State Board of Elections, 383 U.S. 663 (1966), was a case...
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  • Kingdom. Harper v. Virginia Board of Elections, 383 U.S. 663 (1966), overruling Breedlove v. Suttles, 302 U.S. 277 (1937) Harper, a harp player Harper (film)...
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    The Virginia State Board of Elections (SBE) was created in 1946 as a nonpolitical agency responsible for ensuring uniformity, fairness, accuracy and purity...
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    Ruby Bridges (category History of New Orleans)
    father was hesitant. Bridges was born during the middle of the Civil Rights Movement. Brown v. Board of Education was decided three months and twenty-two days...
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  • Lewis handled himself and his commitment to the movement. Lewis was a member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), a student organized...
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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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  • 6–3 in Harper v. Virginia Board of Elections (1966) that all state poll taxes were unconstitutional as violating the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth...
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    p. 208. ISBN 978-0810391772. University of Virginia (June 24, 2013). "Speakers and Guests Bios". virginia.edu. Archived from the original on June 2...
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  • Grandfather clause (category History of voting rights in the United States)
    to elections, with federal enforcement and supervision where necessary. In 1966, the Supreme Court ruled in Harper v. Virginia Board of Elections that...
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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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  • requirements for voting in state elections are prohibited by the Supreme Court in Harper v. Virginia Board of Elections. The poll tax would remain on the...
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    Michael Eric Dyson (category Historians of the civil rights movement)
    Peterson. In August 2018, he spoke at the funeral of Aretha Franklin. Dyson served on the board of directors of the Common Ground Foundation, a project dedicated...
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    Kumbaya (category Songs of the civil rights movement)
    of Marvin V. Frey, a lyric sheet printed in that city in 1939. In an interview at the Library of Congress quoted by Winick, Frey said the change of the...
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  • until Harper v. Virginia Board of Elections, a U.S. Supreme Court case held in 1966. The court ruled that capitation taxes enforced in state elections are...
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    voters in federal elections. But it was not until 1966 that the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6–3 in Harper v. Virginia State Board of Elections that poll taxes...
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    Danny Lyon (category University of Chicago alumni)
    1942) is an American photographer and filmmaker. All of Lyon's publications work in the style of photographic New Journalism, meaning that the photographer...
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    Elijah Muhammad (category American members of the clergy convicted of crimes)
    public school system. The controversy led to the jailing of several University of Islam board members and Elijah Muhammad in 1934 and to violent confrontations...
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    of sayings spoken by Jesus of Nazareth found in the Gospel of Matthew (chapters 5, 6, and 7) that emphasizes his moral teachings. It is the first of five...
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    Juan (January 15, 2004). "Jesse Jackson On 'Mad Dean Disease,' the 2000 Elections and Martin Luther King". Democracy Now!. Archived from the original on...
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    Martin Luther King Jr. and the Speech that Inspired a Nation. New York: Harper Collins. p. 177. OCLC 473993560. Tikkanen, Amy (August 29, 2017). "I Have...
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  • by students at the University of Southern California in 1988. The feature film is based on a short screenplay and film of the same name, written by John...
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    Andrew Goodman (activist) (category University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni)
    of American public schools after the U.S. Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education landmark decision in 1954 struck down the constitutionality of racial...
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    of Arkansas. They then attended after the intervention of President Dwight D. Eisenhower. The U.S. Supreme Court issued its historic Brown v. Board of...
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    Breedlove v. Suttles, 302 U.S. 277 (1937) Lassiter v. Northampton County Board of Elections, 360 U.S. 45 (1959). Harper v. Virginia Board of Elections, 383...
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    segregation unconstitutional in 1954 in Brown v. Board of Education, Southern Democrats began a campaign of "massive resistance" against desegregation,...
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  • Brown v. Board of Education, which held that the "separate but equal" doctrine is unconstitutional in the context of public schools, a series of the Court's...
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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 unconstitutional...
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    December 2020. Gandhi, M. K. (1927). "12". Voice of Truth (Selected Works of Mahatma Gandhi: Volume V). Navajivan Trust. ISBN 81-7229-008-X. Retrieved...
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  • Montgomery bus boycott (category CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of March 2024)
    rights, including court cases such as Morgan v. Virginia, the earlier Baton Rouge bus boycott, and the arrest of Claudette Colvin, among others, for refusing...
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    Harry Belafonte (category Recipients of the Order of the Companions of O. R. Tambo)
    raise a world record of $10 per Norwegian citizen. Belafonte was also an ambassador for the Bahamas. He sat on the board of directors of the Advancement Project...
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