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Four students, Joseph McNeil, Franklin McCain, Ezell Blair, Jr., and David Richmond from the Agricultural and Technical College of North Carolina performed a sit in at a Greensboro Woolworths. As the movement spread hundreds of students in different counties and states joined in. Eventually on July 25, 1960 the sit in ends.
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United States Supreme Court decisions Boynton v. Virginia declared desegregation for interstate busing. A group of people some African American, some white decided to test this decision by busing from Washington D.C to New Orleans. The ride was intended to go through Virginia, North and South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi. While encountering violence and hostility many were injured and they had to leave the buses behind to go to their New Orleans Rally.
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Jackie Robinson becomes the first African American inducted to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
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While in jail in Birmingham Alabama MLK writes his famous 'Letter from Birmingham Jail.'
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The 24th amendment is established which abolished the poll tax 11 Southern States were trying to keep that would restrict voting rights to numerous citizens, mostly African Americans.
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Malcolm X prepared to address the Organization of Afro-American Unity in Manhattan's Audubon Ballroom when Talmadge Hayer and fellow gunmen Norman Butler and Thomas Johnson shot at and killed Malcom X.
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African-American revolutionary leftist organization active in the United States from 1966 until 1982. Founded in Oakland, California by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale, the organization initially set forth a doctrine calling primarily for the protection of African American neighborhoods from police brutality.
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The inflation rate was going up and up. Now, if you have 700 dollars today, it is close to 100 dollars in 1960.
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While speaking at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis Tennessee Martin Luther King Jr, 39, was assassinted by James Earl Ray.
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JAN 3, 1969 Shirley Chisholm becomes the first African American woman to be elected to Congress