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Supreme Court outlaws school segregation
in the Brown vs. Board of Education -
White Citizens council is formed to resist desegrigation
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Emmett Louis Till
Murdered for speaking to white woman. -
Rosa Parks is Arrested
For refussing to give up her seat to a white man. -
Montgomery bus boycott begins
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Supreme Court bans segregated seating on buses
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Congress Passes first civil rights act since reconstruction
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President Eisenhower orders troops to enforce desegregation
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Black students "sit in"
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SNCC is founded
