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Civil Rights Movement
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FDR banned discrimination in defense industries
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Jackie Robinson joined the Brooklyn Dodgers becoming the first African American to play major league baseball
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Brown v. Board of Education
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Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat to a white passenger.
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The Southern Manifesto
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Civil Rights Act of 1957
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Waitress refuses to serve four African American college students at Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina
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Kennedy becomes President.
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CORE staged a "freedom ride" through the Deep South.
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Meredith wona federal court case that ordered the University of Mississippi to desegregate.
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Martin Luther King Jr. decided to join a civil rights demonstration.
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Kennedy delivered a moving televised address.
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Medgar Evers was assasinated on his front doorstep.
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March on Washington
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A bomb exploded in the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham.
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President John F. Kennedy was assasinated.
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Freedom Summer
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Civil Rights Act of 1964
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Freedom Summer ended.
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Bloody Sunday
