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Black Power

Charles Hamilton & Kwame Ture

1967

To Fulfill These Rights: Commencement Address at Howard University

Lyndon B. Johnson

1965

We’re On Our Way

Fannie Lou Hamer

1964

Debates over the Civil Rights Act of 1964

Hubert Humphrey, John F. Kennedy & Strom Thurmond

1964

Birmingham Manifesto

F. L. Shuttlesworth & N. H. Smith

1963

To Secure These Rights :The Report of the President's Committee on Civil Rights

President's Committee on Civil Rights

1947

Brandenburg v. Ohio

Per Curiam

1969

New York Times Company v. Sullivan

William J. Brennan Jr.

1964

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People v. State of Alabama

John M. Harlan

1958

Beauharnais v. Illinois

Felix Frankfurter, Hugo L. Black & William O. Douglas

1952

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