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Emmett Till murdered in Money, Mississippi by Roy Bryant for talking to his wife
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Emmett Till trial throughout September; murderers judged as innocent.
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Rosa Parks being arrested for sitting at the front of a bus (African Americans were not allowed to do that) leads to Montgomery bus boycott; ends with Supreme Court decision that segregated buses are unconstitutional.
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Little Rock Nine: 9 black children were blocked from attending a white school as part of an integration plan; President Eisenhower orders national guard paratroopers guarding the students as they walked to school.
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Black tudents protest lunchroom segregation by siting in lunchrooms and resturants where there was segregation.
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First "Freedom Ride" to protest segregation.
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Bus 1 destroyed by white protesters in Birmingham, Alabama.
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Bus 2 is attacked by a white mob in Montgomery, Alabama.
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Marin Luther King Sr. writes letter from Birmingham jail in response to white religious leaders syaing that he had gone to far with the civil rights movement.
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16th Baptist Church Bombings by KKK; four young African American girls are killed
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"Bloody Sunday": March from Selma to Montgomery protesting the death of Jiimie Lee Jackson were attacked by police.
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Marches from Selma to Montgomery by civil-rights activists to protest segregation
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Marchers are turned back by police after crossing the Edmund Peetus Bridge.
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Marchers march from Selmy to the capital in Montgomery, protected by the Alabam National Guard, FBI agents, and Federal Marshals.