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Personal video: https://youtu.be/9uq10i_DI1k
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Supreme court reverses Plessy V. Ferguson declaring "Separate but equal" public education is unconstitutional from this came the Little Rock nine
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Rosa Parks leads a bus boycott by sitting in the front of the bus-something African Americans were unable to do at the time
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Developed by MLK jr. and others to bring about the end of segregation with nonviolent protests
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Nine african americans attend a white high school in little rock, Arkansas Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypzcZHZnDDw
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The SNCC was founded to give young African Americans a stronger voice in the civil rights movement used strategies such as sit-ins
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Mississippi launched the Freedom Vote mock election to give Black citizens practice in casting a ballot
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California passes Rumford fair housing act making it so no person can be discriminated against when buying/renting a house
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over 200,000 American citizens gathered in Washington for a political rally for freedom and jobs this is also where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his "I Have a Dream Speech"
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President John. F. Kennedy is assassinated and Lyndon Johnson takes his place as president
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Johnson calls for a War on Poverty stating that "many americans live on the outskirts of hope-some because of their poverty, some because of their color and all too many because of both"
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Personal Vide: https://youtu.be/OdN_a5ycoq4
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1 killed, 100 injured, and several hundred arrested after riot broke out about the shooting of a 15 year old african american boy
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eliminating polling taxes on voters in federal elections
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President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act which prohibited segregation in public areas and promoted equal employment opportunity
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Malcom X was an African American human rights activist and did what ever he could to push for the equality of blacks and whites
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Over 600 people march from Selma, Alabama to Montgomery for voting rights. Officers used tear gas and nightsticks to push people back to Selma
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President Johnson declared an investigation on the Ku Klux Klan where 4 white supremacist were arrested
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President Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act which prohibits use of literacy tests
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MLK jr. assassinated in Memphis by James Earl Ray
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Shirley Chisholm becomes the first African American woman to be elected to the U.S. house of representatives
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Supreme court rules to order immediate desegregation of 33 Mississippi school districts
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Prohibited discrimination in hiring making it easier for African Americans to obtain jobs
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Personal Video: https://youtu.be/xGb3unpL5ko
