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a eight year old African-American girl, had been denied permission to attend an elementary school only five blocks from her home
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Emmett Till a 14 year old boywho got kidnapped from his great uncles house then beaten, shot in the head, and then thrown into Tallahatchie River.
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Rose Parks refuses to give up her seat on a public bus to a whiteman
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's house was bombed but no one was injured
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Arkansas governor Orval Faubus calls the National Guard to prevent nine African American students from integrating Little Rock's Central High School.
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Four black college students begin sit-ins at the lunch counter of a Greensboro, North Carolina.
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Dr. King is arrested for breaking the state of Georgia's trespassing law while picketing in Atlanta.
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in his Birmingham cell Dr. King writes about his concerns on the pace of justice in civil rights for Black Americans in his "Letter from a Birmingham Jail"
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Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his most famous speech, "I Have a Dream," in Washinton DC
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While standing on the balcony of his room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee Dr. Martin Luther King is shot and killed