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This was the date when Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in the MLB and made his debut for the Brooklyn Dodgers.
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A case was won for equal schooling
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Rosa Parks was arrested for sitting in a white persons seat, and so Blacks boycotted buses, ruined the cities economy
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Nine African American Students on this date were attmitted to Little Rock High School, white people at that school were still very discriminatory, and the African American students had to be guarded by soldiers.
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4 black college students sat down at a white only lunch counter in a hope to try to end segregation. The next day the number grew to 19 and then to 85
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On this day, Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous "I had a dream speech" at lincoln memorial. A quarter of a million people gathered to see it.
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A bomb exploded, killing 4 black girls. People now wondered if they were ever safe in church again.
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Outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex or natural origin.
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600 people marched into Montgomery to show their campaign to get civil rights.
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Outlawed poll taxes and literacy tests so blacks can vote.
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On this day, King was shot to death by James Earl Ray in Memphis, Tennesee
