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Sanctioned the "seperate but equal" segregation.
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Supreme court rules segregation of school unconstitutional
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Rosa Parks refused to give up her colored seat of the bust to a white man.
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9 African American students are put into a white school and require national guard to protect them.
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Birmingham commissioner of Public Safety uses fire hoses and dogs on black protesters. Pictures and videos of the events shook the world
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MLK gets arrested at anti-segregation protests in Birmingham
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Over a thousand students left school in order to march against segregation and gathered at Sixth Street Baptists Church to march to downtown Birmingham. Hundreds upon thousands of children were arrested and jailed. First filling police wagons then school busses.