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Jackie Robinson was the first African- American to play major league baseball.

Jackie Robinson was the first African- American to play major league baseball. He later took part, with his son, in the March on Washington in 1963. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Robinson. In 1896, the US Supreme court ruled that “separate but equal” public

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Jackie Robinson was the first African- American to play major league baseball.

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  1. Jackie Robinson was the first African- American to play major league baseball. He later took part, with his son, in the March on Washington in 1963. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Robinson

  2. In 1896, the US Supreme court ruled that “separate but equal” public facilities were legal in the “Plessy v. Ferguson” court case in New Orleans. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plessy_v._Ferguson

  3. A mother and her daughter sit on the steps of the Supreme Court Building in Washington D.C. They are holding a newspaper with headlines about the end of segregation in public schools in America. The court case involved 5 separate cases that the Supreme Court heard as one case, calledBrown v. the Board Of Education of Topeka, Kansas. http://www.nps.gov/brvb/index.htm

  4. Rosa Parks – Montgomery Bus Boycott http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Parks

  5. John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon took part in the first televised presidential debate in 1960. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_1960

  6. President Kennedy addressed the nation in the summer of 1963, on TV, about his proposed Civil Rights Act. He was assassinated on November 22, 1963. President Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act in 1964. It prohibited discrimination against African Americans in employment, voting, and public accommodations. It also banned many other discriminations. http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/jfkcivilrights.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1964

  7. The March on Washington – 1963 Dr. Martin Luther King gave his “I Have a Dream” speech. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Have_a_Dream

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