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Period: to
Civil Rights Movement
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FDR bans discrimination in defense industries
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Jackie Robinson becomes first African American in Major League Baseball
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Truman desegregates the military
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The beginning of the Montgomery Bus Boycott
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Montgomery, Alabama desegregates busses
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Little Rock tries to desegregate schools
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Congress passses Civil Rights Act of 1957
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Greensboro Sit-In
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Freedom Ride
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Meredith intergrates the University of Mississippi
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Martin Luther King Jr. joins the birmingham campaign
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Kennedy declares that America shall make every man equal
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Medgar Evers Assassinated
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March On Washington
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John F. Kennedy Assassinated
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Freedom Summer
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President Johnson signs Civil Rights Act of 1964
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Freedom Summer Ends
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MLK and SCLC Selma Alabama Campaign
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Bloody Sunday
