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54 Violence erupts in Caesarea regarding the a local ordinance restricting the civil rights of Jews, creating clashes between Jews and pagans. The Roman garrison, made up of Syrians, takes the side of the pagans. The Jews, armed with clubs and swords, meet in the marketpla The Governor of Judaea, Antonius Felix orders his troops to charge. The violence continues and Felix asks Nero to arbitrate. Nero, sides with the pagans and relegates the Jews to second-class citizens. This decision does nothing but increase the Jews' anger.
1872 Reconstruction: President Ulysses S. Grant signs the Amnesty Act of 1872 into law restoring full civil rights to all but about 500 Confederate sympathizers.
1961 American civil rights movement: A Freedom Riders bus is fire-bombed near Anniston, Alabama and the civil rights protestors are beaten by an angry mob.
1964 American civil rights movement: Civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Chaney are found dead in Mississippi, after disappearing on June 21.
1965 Civil rights activists led by Martin Luther King, Jr. begin a march from Selma to the capitol in Montgomery.
1965 Civil rights activists led by Martin Luther King, Jr. successfully end a march from Selma, arriving at the capitol in Montgomery. Four Klansmen shoot and kill Detroit homemaker Viola Liuzzo as she drives marchers back to Selma at night after the march.
1966 James Meredith, civil rights activist, is shot while trying to march across Mississippi.
1968 American civil rights movement: A civil rights protest staged at a white-only bowling alley in Orangeburg, South Carolina is broken-up by highway patrolmen, leading to the deaths of three college students.
1969 Riots in Curaçao, marking the start for a movement for Afro-Caribbean civil rights on the island.
1985 December 24 Right wing extremist David Lewis Rice murders civil rights attorney Charles Goldmark as well as Goldmark's wife and two children in Seattle. Rice suspected the family of being Jewish and Communist and claimed his dedication to the Christian Identity movement drove him to the crime.
1993 Rodney King testifies at the federal trial of 4 Los Angeles, California police officers accused of violating King's civil rights when they beat him during an arrest.
1993 A federal judge sentences LAPD officers Stacey Koon and Laurence Powell to 30 months in prison for violating motorist Rodney King's civil rights.
1994 Byron De La Beckwith is convicted of the 1963 murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers.
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