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Court case that challenged school segregation laws brought by the NAACP
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African Americans stopped taking public buses that were segregated due to Rosa Park's arrest.
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9 African American students would go into a public school with that was previously segregated for the first time in American History.
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Federal Judge ordered desegregation in Arkansas, people were very angry about the order given.
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250,000 people march upon Washington D.C. including celebrities, politicians, and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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The Ku Klux Klan bombed a Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, killing four girls, The bombing shocked the nation.
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Stopped literacy tests that were being given to African Americans to "test" them to be elligible to vote.
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Malcolm X, a civil rights leader was assassinated by a member of his islam community.
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African Americans were marching over the Edmund Pettus Bridge when they encountered police officers who ended up becoming violent and many were injured.
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Dr. King was shot to death in Memphis, Tennessee
