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Tennessee
     The sixteenth state to be admitted to the United States, Tennessee seceded from the Union on June 8, 1861. Decades of lynchings, racism and segregation culminate with the Civil Rights Movement bringing these institutions to an end, and on April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King, Jr., is assassinated in Memphis.
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