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Supreme Court outlaws school segregation. The court case that allowed separate but equal facilities was Plessy v. Ferguson. The Brown v. Board case started in Topeka, Kansas when a child was turned down to go to a white school. Brown stated segregated schools are not equal and never will be. So brown went against the board of education to proove he was right. The case ended in the court declaring the law of sepreate schools for black and whites.
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killed for leading voter- registration drive
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Murdered for organizing black voters in Brookhaven, Mississippi.
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Murdered for speaking to a white women in Money, Mississippi.
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Killed by nightriders opposed to school improvments in Mayflower, Texas.
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Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama. She ended up being aressted and going to jail but changed the world by standing up for herself.
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The Sumpreme Court bans segregated seating on Montgomery buses.
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He was killed by klansmen in Montgomery, Alabama
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president Eisenhower passed this law. The law signaled a growing federal commitment to the civil rights.
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A group of black students tried to desegregate a white high school in Little Rock, Arkansas. As they tried to enter guards blocked the way that were sent by government. Eisenhower then sent federal troops to make sure that the kids made it in safely. To protect the students the government desegregated schools.
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Mack was taken from jail and lynched in Poplarwille, Mississippi.
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Blacks students stage sit-in at "whites only" lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina.
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Sumpreme Court outlaws segregation in bus terminals.
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A group of 13 Affrican Americans and white civil rights activists, got on a bus and traveled through America to protest against segregation. The congress of Racial Equality (CORE) helped organize the Feedom Riders.
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Voter regrisgation worker killed by white legislator in Liberty, Mississippi.
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Civil Right groups join forces to launch voter registration drive.
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Roman was taken from a bus and killed by police in Taylorsville, Mississippi.
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Riots erupt when James Meredith, a black student, enrolls at Ole Miss. The government got involved by desegregating the schools.
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French reporters killed during Ole Miss riot in Oxford, Mississippi.
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He was killed during a one-man march against segregation in Attalla, Alabama
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They attack marching children with dogs and fire hoses.
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He standsin schoolhouse door to stop university integration.
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Evers was a Civil Rights leader assassinated in Jackson, Mississippi. He was working on getting evidence for the Emmitt Till case, which brought much attention to African Americans. He was later killed by Byron De la Beckwith.
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250,000 Americans march on Washington for civil rights. The "I Have a Dream" speech was delivered on that march.
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Addie Mae Collins, Denise McNair, Carole Robertson, and Cynthia Wesley were killed in a bombing of sixteenth street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alambama.
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Youth killed during wave of racist violence in Birmingham, Alabama.
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Poll tax outlawed in federal elections.
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Louis Allen was a witness to murder of Civil Rights worjer assassinated in Liberty, Mississippi.
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Bruce was killed when protesting construction of segregated schools in Cleveland, Ohio.
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Both Henry and Charles were killed by Klansmen in Meadville, Mississippi.
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Freedom summer brings 1,000 young civil rights volunteers to Mississippi.
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Civil rights worker, James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Micheal Schwerner were abducted and killed by Klansmen in Philadelphia, Mississippi
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President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964. This law ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination.
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He was killed by Klansmen while driving north in Colbert, Georgia.
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Jimmie a Civil rights marcher was killed by a state trooper in Marion, Alabama.
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State troopers beat back marchers at Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama.
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Rev. James Reeb a march volunteer was beaten to death in Selma, Alabama. The march was organized for voting rights. At one point they faced a blockade of state troopers and lawmen telling them to stop, but they didnt. The result of the march was President Johnson signing the Voting rights act of 1965.
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Thousands complete the Selma to Montgomery Voting Rights March.
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Viola was killed by Klansmen while transpoting marchers on Selma Highway, Alabama.
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Oneal was a black deputy who was killed by nightriders in Varnado, Louisiana
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Congress passes voting rights act of 1965.
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Willie Brewster was killed by nightriders in Anniston, Alabama.
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Jonathan Daniels a seminary student was killed by deputy in Hayneville, Alabama.
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Samuel a student civil rights activist was killed in disputein Taskegee, Alabama.
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Veron Dahmer a black community leader was killed in a klan bombing in Mattiesburg, Mississippi.
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Clarence Triggs was killed by nightriders in Bogalusa, Louisiana.
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Ben was killed by klansmen in Natchez, Mississippi.
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Wharlest Jackson a civil rights leader was killed after promotion to 'white' job in Natchez, Mississippi.
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Benjamin was a civil rights worker who was killed when police fired on protestors in Jackson, Mississippi.
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Thurgood Marshall was the first african-american justice. He studued law at a young age and in 1954 he won the Brown v. Board case. This was monumental because it ended racial segregation in public schools.
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Students killed when highway patrolmen fire on protesters in Orangeberg, South Carolina.
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Marting Luther King was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee. As he was preparing to leave for a dinner he stepped on his balcony and was shot. This had such a big impact on people because he was a leader of the civil rights movement.
