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The Supreme Court rules against school segregation. This ment that African Americans could go to the same schools as the "whites".
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The government uses the military to uphold African American's civil rights. Soliders escort nine colored students to desegrate a school in Little Rock, Arkansas.
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Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat on a Alabama, bus to a white person. This caused a year long boycott.
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The U.S Supreme Court decides that segregation in Alabama is unconstitutional.
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Althea Gibson becomes the first Afircan American tennis player to win a major title by winning both the women's aingles and doubles championships.
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More than 200,000 march in Washington D.C, in the largest civil rights demonstration. On this day Martin Luther King give his "I had a dream" speech.
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Martin Luther King Jr. was awarded the Noble Peace Prize. He was awarded this prize because the way he acted through nonviolence.
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Edward W. Brooke becomes the first African American U.S senator. He serves two terms as a Republican from Massachusetts.
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MLK is assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee. His death causes a week of rioting acoss the country.
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Shirley Chisholm becomes the first African American woman to be elected for congress. She served for seven terms 1969 to 1983.
