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Freedom Vote, Summer 1963
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Was a mock election to show Mississippi whites and the nation that blacks wanted to vote
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63' March on Washington
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Purpose was to urge passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and to draw attention to black unemployment
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Freedom Summer, summer of 64'
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A massive voter registration drive aimed at registering and educating local blacks in prep for the presidential election
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1964 Civil Rights Act
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Outlawed discrimination in public facilities and employment, enforced desegregation and equal rights
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Selma, Alabama
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A state trooper killed a man in a civil rights march. This started a mass pilgrimage from Selma to Montgomery
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Bloody Sunday
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The pilgrimage group was attacked by Alabama state troopers while crossing a bridge. People were beaten, injured, and forced to turn around
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1965 Voting Rights Act
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Got rid of literacy tests and poll tax
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