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Supreme Court reverses Plessy by stating that separate schools are by nature unequa
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Rosa Parks starts 381-day bus boycott organized by Martin Luther King, J
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Over 100 southern members of Congress sign document attacking the Supreme Court decision
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Little Rock school board votes to integrate schools, National Guard troops prevent black children from attending school
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10 men sat at a "whites only" counter in Rock Hill, South Carolina in a protest against segregation
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King and SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Conference) oppose local laws that agreed with the segregation