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Use Cases
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Resources
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Pricing
The Butler Movie Project
Civil rights Movement
Emancipation Proclamation
January 1, 1863
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13th Amendement
December 6, 1865
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Abolishes Slavery
14th amendment
July 9, 1868
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Grants due process and equal protection under the law to African Americans
Truman signs executive order 9981
July 26,1948
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Brown V. Board of Education
May 17, 1954
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Unanimous agreement that segregation in schools was unconstitutional
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Emmett Till
August, 1955
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Emmett Till was kidnapped and brutally beaten,shot and dumped in the Tallahatchie river.
Montgomery Bus Boycott
December, 1955 - December 21, 1956
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Started with the arrest of Rosa Parks, lasted until the buses are desegregated
Rosa Parks
December 1, 1955
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Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat in the colored section to a white passenger
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Little Rock Nine
September 1957
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The integration of black students blocked by orders of the governor of Arkansas. President Eisenhower orders a group of federal troops and the national guard to help assist with the integration.
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Presidents
Abraham Lincoln
March 4, 1861 - April 15, 1865
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Harry Truman
April 12, 1945 - January 20, 1953
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
January 20, 1953 - January 20, 1961
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John F. Kennedy
January 20, 1961 - November 22, 1963
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Lyndon B. Johnson
November 22, 1963 - January 20, 1969
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Richard Nixon
January 20, 1969 - August 9, 1974
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Gerald Ford
August 9, 1974 - January 20, 1977
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Jimmy Carter
January 20, 1977 - January 20, 1981
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Ronald Reagan
January 20, 1981 - January 20, 1989
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