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The Brooklyn Dodgers signed Jackie Robinson to their team.
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Harry Truman orders to end segregation in the military.
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The Supreme Court rules against segregation in schools
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Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat to a white man on a public bus.
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Martin Luther King Jr. and others formed the southern Christian Leadership Conference. (SCLC)
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Nine African American teenagers tried to enter an all white central high school in little rock.
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The students tried again but couldn't get in. The next day President Dwight Eisenhower sent U.S. army troops to take the Little Rock Nine to school.
