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    The Emancipation Proclamation, officially Proclamation 95, was a presidential proclamation and executive order issued by United States President Abraham...
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  • The Second Emancipation Proclamation is the term applied to an envisioned executive order that Martin Luther King Jr. and other leaders of the Civil Rights...
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    executive order to deliver a blow for civil rights as a kind of Second Emancipation Proclamation. Kennedy did not execute the order. The FBI, under written...
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  • including Viola Liuzzo, Archbishop Iakovos, and James Reeb, arrive to join the second march. Marchers cross the bridge again and see the state troopers lined...
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    Movement Cambridge movement University of Chicago sit-ins "Second Emancipation Proclamation" Meredith enrollment, Ole Miss riot Atlanta's Berlin Wall "Segregation...
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    States. 1963 marked the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation by President Abraham Lincoln. Leaders represented major civil...
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    the school prevented their moving to the classroom until the second day. On the second day, however, a white student broke the boycott and entered the...
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    Movement Cambridge movement University of Chicago sit-ins "Second Emancipation Proclamation" Meredith enrollment, Ole Miss riot Atlanta's Berlin Wall "Segregation...
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  • Mississippi. On July 25, 2023 (Till's 82nd birthday), President Biden signed a proclamation establishing the Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument...
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    speeches in American history. Beginning with a reference to the Emancipation Proclamation, which declared millions of slaves free in 1863, King said "one...
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    Major General Gordon Granger ordered the final enforcement of the Emancipation Proclamation in Texas at the end of the American Civil War. Originating in...
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    during the last months of his life. Malcolm X is widely regarded as the second most influential leader of the Nation of Islam after Elijah Muhammad. He...
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    Movement Cambridge movement University of Chicago sit-ins "Second Emancipation Proclamation" Meredith enrollment, Ole Miss riot Atlanta's Berlin Wall "Segregation...
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  • Movement Cambridge movement University of Chicago sit-ins "Second Emancipation Proclamation" Meredith enrollment, Ole Miss riot Atlanta's Berlin Wall "Segregation...
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    Movement Cambridge movement University of Chicago sit-ins "Second Emancipation Proclamation" Meredith enrollment, Ole Miss riot Atlanta's Berlin Wall "Segregation...
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  • Movement Cambridge movement University of Chicago sit-ins "Second Emancipation Proclamation" Meredith enrollment, Ole Miss riot Atlanta's Berlin Wall "Segregation...
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  • Trio recorded it on College Concert in 1962, and The Seekers for their second UK album, Hide & Seekers (also known as The Four & Only Seekers) in 1964...
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    to move liberated slaves out of the South. President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, which took effect on January 1, 1863, declared the freedom of...
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    Writings Stride Toward Freedom (1958) "What Is Man?" (1959) "Second Emancipation Proclamation" Strength to Love (1963) "Letter from Birmingham Jail" (1963)...
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    publicized worldwide a picture of her lying wounded on the bridge. The second march took place two days later but King cut it short as a federal court...
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  • Encyclopedia of African American Civil Rights: From Emancipation to the Twenty-First Century. Vol. 1 (Second ed.). Greenwood Press. p. 47. ISBN 978-0-313-32171-9...
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    including blues, folk, gospel, show tunes, and American standards. His second-most popular hit, which came immediately after "The Banana Boat Song", was...
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    "mostly in Holland, Britain, and the United States, before and during the Second World War". The efficacy of nonviolence was also challenged by some anti-capitalist...
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    Movement Cambridge movement University of Chicago sit-ins "Second Emancipation Proclamation" Meredith enrollment, Ole Miss riot Atlanta's Berlin Wall "Segregation...
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    Capitol Rotunda. On October 30, 2005, President George W. Bush issued a proclamation ordering that all flags on U.S. public areas both within the country...
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    slavery. During the war, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which ordered the liberation of all slaves in rebelling states...
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    day from $9 to $10 per week. This first house burned in an 1895 fire. The second Monson House was located at 26 Bay Street next to Brava Lane. Open all year...
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    Reconstruction Amendments to the United States Constitution granted emancipation and constitutional rights of citizenship to all African Americans, most...
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    Thurgood Marshall (category Judges of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit)
    John F. (eds.). Encyclopedia of African-American Civil Rights: From Emancipation to the Present. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. pp. 345–347....
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    September 1957 and would integrate one high school: Little Rock Central. The second phase of the plan would take place in 1960 and would open up a few junior...
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