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1946 - Segregation on buses that crossed state borders was declared illegal
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1948 - Discrimination in the armed forces became illegal
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1952 - First year since 1881 without a lynching
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1954 - The supreme court declared segregation in schools to be unconstitutional
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1955 - Montgomery Bus Boycott began
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1957 - Dr. Martin Luther King began president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
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1957 - Civil Rights Act passed
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1960 - Elijah Muhammad called for the creation of a seperate state for blacks
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1962 - The arrest of the Freedom Riders in the South
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1963 - The Leader of the NAACP was assassinated
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1964 - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was awarded the nobel peace prize.
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1965 - Watts Riot which lasted 6 days
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1968 - Dr. King's assassination
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1968 - Memphis sanitation workers went on strike