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Supreme court decision in "Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas" case
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Civil Rights Movement
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Rosa Parks arrested
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Supreme court rules that segregation of montgomery, AL buses is unconstitutional
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Montgomery Bus boycott ended with buses being desegregated
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Southern Christian Conference
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Desegregating Little Rock
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Sit-ins being
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Freedom Rides begin
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the Congress of Racial Equality begins to organize freedom rides
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President Johnson signs Civil Rights Act
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Assassination of Martin Luther King