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President Harry Truman ended segregation in the armed services
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Brown Vs. the Board of education
supreme court effectively ended racial segregation in public schools. (many private cathlic and chart schools stayed segergated -
Rosa Park refuses to give her seat to a white man on a bus in Alabama started the bus boycott.
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Sixty Black pastors and civil rights leaders from several southern states including Martin Luther King Jr. meet in Atlanta, Georgia to coordinate nonviolent protests against racial discrimination and segregation