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Brown Vs Board of Education
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March on Washington
March for equality. One of the largest political rallies. -
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Montgomery BUss Boycott
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Little Rock Nine
Nine black kids attend Centeral high school. IN Little Rock Alabama. Start of integration. -
James Meredeth
the first black student to enroll at the University of Mississippi. Violence and riots surrounding the incident cause President Kennedy to send 5,000 federal troops. -
Martin Luther King is arrested during anti-segregation protests in Birmingham, Ala.
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Sixteenth Street Baptist Church
Four girls Addie Mae Collins Denise McNair, Cynthia Wesley, and Carole Robertson, attending Sunday school are killed when a bomb goes off. -
"I have a dream" Speech
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Civil rights act of 1964
outlawed major forms of discrimination against racial, ethnic, national and religious minorities, and women. It ended unequal application of voter registration requirements and racial segregation in schools, at the workplace and by facilities that served the general public. -
Assassination of Martin Luther King Junior
Devistated the Black community. Their leader was killed. He was going to go on a march.
