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Eisenhower appoints Earl Warren to the supreme court
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Brown V. Board of education of Topeka
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Rosa parks refuses to give up her bus saet in Montgomery, Alabama
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montgomery bus boycott
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virginia state legislature cuts funds for integrated schools to stall further integration.
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only 700 of 100,000 school districts in the south had desgregated
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southern christian leadership conference (sclc) is founded
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Governor tarbus of Arkansas brings iin National gaurd to prevent black students from going into a white school
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"sit in" movement begins in Greensboro,North carolina
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Freedom riders bus burned
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michael harringtons the other America
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John F. Kennedy is assassinated
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Martin luther kings "letter from Birmingham city jail"
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march on washington for civil rights
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Martin Luther Kings speech "i have a dream"
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24th amendment abolishes any tax used as a prerequisite for voting
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Lyndon B. johnson elected president
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Equal Employment oppurtunity commision (EEOC)
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1964 civil rights act
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50 mile protest march from Selma, AL to Montgomery, AL
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Affirmative action is instituted, also watts riots break out in Los Angeles.
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Malcolm X is assassinated by three members of the Nation of islam in Harlem
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Johnson appoints thurgood Marshall as the first amrican to the supreme court
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Martin Luther king is assassinated
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philidelphia plan requires construction trade unions to establish practice for hiring minorities.
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all school segregation ends with alexander V. holmes county board of education