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In 1948 Truman signed the Executive order 9981 which said that the states may be seperate but equal. When that happened evrything became seperate but it wasn't equal.
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The Brown vs. Board of Education made the white children and african american come together into 1 school and that made the white children not go to school because they didn't want to be in the same school as the african american children.
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On his way to Mississippi to visit family Emmett Till was kidnapped and bruttally beaten, shot, and dumped in a river because he allegedly wistled at a white woman.
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Rosa Parks was a great person during the Civil Rights Movement because she did not give up her seat in the front of a bus to a white man. Since she did not give up her seat to a white man she was arrested.
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Martin Luther King, Charles K. Steele, and Fred L. Shuttlesworth establish the Southern Christian Leadership Conference which became a major force in organizing the civil rights movement.
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The Little Rock Nine is when 9 african american kids went to a all white school but they were bloked from entering by rule of the govenor.
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In 1960s, 4 african americans began a sit in at a segrigated lunch counter.
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SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee) is founded at Shaw University, providing young blacks with a place in the civil rights movement.
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In the Spring and Summer, student volunteers began taking bus trips through the south to test out new laws that stop segragation in interstate travel facilities including buses and trains.
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James Meredith became the first student to enroll at the University of Mississippi.
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Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested for an anti-segregation protest . Then he wrote, from his jail sell in Birmingham Alabama, that people should not have to follow unreasonable laws.
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During the march to Washington about 200,000 people joined Martin Luther King Jr. at the Lincon memorial where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his I have a dream speech.
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Many white people put a bomb in the church where many african american children went for sunday school and religous classes. During the bombing 4 little girls died.
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Race riots erupt in a black section of Los Angeles.
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Martin Luther King Jr. was shot as he stands on the balcony outside his hotel room. Martin Luther was only 39 when he died.
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President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968 stopping upsets in sales, rental, and financing of housing.
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Rosa Parks dies at the age of 92.
