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Founded by a group of multi-racial activists
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Segregation in schools declared unconstitutional
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14-year-old Chicagoan kidnapped and brutally killed
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Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white passenger
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Martin Luther King Jr. established the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
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He successfully led an armed self-defense of the home of V.P. of NAACP
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Nine black students were admitted to Central High School
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Non-violent demonstrations trigger other non-violent acts
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Prohibiting the discrimination in the federal government
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Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee founded at Shaw University
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First black student admitted to University of Mississippi; caused President Kennedy to send 5,000 federal troops in
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Killed by Byron De La Beckwith, convicted 30 years later
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s famous "I Have a Dream" speech
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Four girls attending Sunday School killed by bomb
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24th amendment abolished poll tax
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Voter Registration Program
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Freedom Rides, 1,000 volunteers black and white participate
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President Johnson signed Civil Rights Act of 1964
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Bodies of three civil rights workers (two white, one black) found
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Malcolm X assassinated at Audubon Ballroom
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Political and emotional peak of Civil Rights Movement
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State Troopers and Dallas County Sheriff's Department attacked peaceful marchers with billy clubs, tear gas, and bull whips driving them back to Selma
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Dr. Martin flew to Selma
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Voting Rights of 1965 passed by Congress
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Requirements restraining black voting made illegal
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Equality of employment
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Prohibiting interracial marriage declared unconstitutional
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First African American Supreme Court Justice
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Dr. King assassinated by James Earl Ray
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President Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1968