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The Supreme Court rules that segregation is unconstitutional.
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Rosa Parks is arrested because she refuses to give up her seat to a white individual on the bus.
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Martin Luther King Jr. helps organize the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
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The Supreme Court rules that segragating seats on the bus is unconstitutional. Allowing blacks to sit wherever they like on the bus, ending the boycott.
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The SNCC is formed and helps arrange events such as marches, sit-ins, and freedom rides in segregated areas.
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Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speach is given in Washington D.C.
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President of the United States John F. Kennedy, a supporter of civil rights, is killed while in Houston, Texas.
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Congress passes this law which outlaws discrimination in the United States.
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President Lindon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act into law which prohibits racial discrimination in voting.
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King is killed while in Memphis, Tennessee.
