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The Plessy vs. Ferguson was a case about a colored man riding in a white bus and was arrested for violating the law ended saying that separate but equal was constitutional.
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The Brown vs. Board of Education ended segregation in schools saying that separate but equal was unconstitutional.
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Rosa Parks was arrested for not giving her seat to a white man. She started the Montgomery bus boycott which later ended on November 13, 1956 ruling that segregation on buses was unconstitutional.
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Martin Luther King Jr. led 200,000 people on what is now known as the March on Washington in D.C and then gave his I Have a Dream speech at the footsteps of the Lincoln Memorial.
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A bomb exploded in a church in Birmingham, Alabama leaving four African American girls dead and many injured.
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July 2, 1964President Lyndon Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964 which ended segregation and banned discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin.
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Malcolm X (a civil Right activist) is assassinated by a gunman in New York.
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Martin Luther King Jr. led some 2,000 people on a march from Selma to Montgomery for African American Voting Rights; this Lead to the passing on the Voting Rights Act of 1965 which allowed African Americans to vote.
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A riot breaks out in Watts, Los Angeles leaving 34 dead and a thousand injured. The trigger was the arrest Marquette Frye.
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Thurgood Marshall became the first African American justice on the Supreme Court. He was very instrumental because he guided the destruction of the Jim Crow laws.
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Martin Luther king Jr. was assassinated on a balcony of a hotel in Memphis, Tennessee.
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Rodney King is brutally beaten by four L.A.P.D officers. After a three month trial, the police officers are found innocent. This sparked violent into the citizens, leading into the Los Angeles riots.
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Barack Obama is the first African American to become president of the United States of America. He was re-elected to be president in 2012.
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Donald Sterling, owner of the Clippers is caught making racist comments. He is then banned from the NBA.
