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Full Primary Source Set: The Civil Rights Movement

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Richard Wright, Black Boy, 1945

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Sweatt v. Painter, 1950

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Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, 1952

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Brown v. Board of Education, 1954

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Martin Luther King, Jr., Montgomery Bus Boycott Speech, 1955

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The Southern Manifesto, 1956

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Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Founding Statement, 1960

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James Baldwin “Fifth Avenue, Uptown”, 1960

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Freedom Rides Photographs, 1961

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Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail, 1963

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Martin Luther King, Jr., I Have a Dream, 1963

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John Lewis, Speech at the March on Washington, August 28, 1963

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We Shall Overcome

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Malcolm X, Message to the Grassroots, 1963

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Civil Rights Act, 1964

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Fannie Lou Hamer Testimony before the Credentials Committee, Democratic National Convention, August 22, 1964

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Images of Bloody Sunday, 1965

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Voting Rights Act, 1965

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Loving v. Virginia, 1967

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