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instanceOf
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historical region-period
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socio-political context
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associatedWithOrganization
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Congress of Racial Equality
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NAACP
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Southern Christian Leadership Conference
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Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
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associatedWithPerson
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Diane Nash
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Fannie Lou Hamer
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John Lewis
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Martin Luther King Jr.
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Medgar Evers
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Rosa Parks
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Thurgood Marshall
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characterizedBy
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Black disenfranchisement
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Jim Crow laws
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civil rights activism
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racial segregation
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systemic racism
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white supremacist resistance
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culturallyCharacterizedBy
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Black church leadership in activism
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freedom songs
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demographicallyCharacterizedBy
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large African American population
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economicallyCharacterizedBy
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rural poverty
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sharecropping legacy
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governedByLegalRegime
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Jim Crow segregation
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hasApproximateEnd
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late 1960s
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hasApproximateStart
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1940s
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hasCommonTacticOfActivists
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boycotts
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freedom rides
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nonviolent direct action
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sit-ins
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hasCommonTacticOfOpponents
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economic retaliation
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legal obstruction
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mob violence
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police repression
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hasDominantOppressiveSystem
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racial caste system
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hasKeyIssue
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employment discrimination
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public accommodations desegregation
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racial violence
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school desegregation
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voting rights
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hasLongTermImpactOn
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U.S. civil rights law
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U.S. party politics realignment
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national discourse on race
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hasMajorCity
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Atlanta, Georgia
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Birmingham, Alabama
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Greensboro, North Carolina
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Jackson, Mississippi
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Little Rock, Arkansas
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Montgomery, Alabama
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New Orleans, Louisiana
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hasTimePeriod
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mid-20th century
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includesState
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Alabama
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Arkansas
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Georgia
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Louisiana
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Mississippi
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North Carolina
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South Carolina
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Tennessee
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Texas
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Virginia
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influencedCourtDecision
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Brown v. Board of Education
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influencedLaw
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Civil Rights Act of 1957
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Civil Rights Act of 1964
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Voting Rights Act of 1965
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involvesSocialMovement
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Civil Rights Movement
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partOf
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United States
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politicallyCharacterizedBy
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massive resistance to desegregation
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one-party Democratic dominance until 1960s
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siteOfEvent
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1963 Birmingham church bombing
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Birmingham campaign
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Freedom Rides
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Greensboro sit-ins
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Little Rock school desegregation crisis
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Mississippi Freedom Summer
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Montgomery bus boycott
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Murder of Emmett Till
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Selma to Montgomery marches
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