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The legal suit called for the legal de-segregation of all schools, but the Supreme court ruled in favor of the Board of Education
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Lee killed while leading a voter-registration drive. Belzoni,Mississippi
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Murdered for organizing black voters. Brookhaven, Mississippi
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Murdered for speaking to a white woman. Money,Mississippi
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Killed by nightriders opposed to school improvements. ayflower, Texas
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Rosa Parks was arrested for not giving uo her seat at the front of the bus to a white man. Montgomerey, Alabama
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The Suprme Court bans segregation on busses
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Killed by klansmen. Montgomerey, Alabama
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Congress passes first civil rights act since civil war, leading to integration of schools.
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The President sent in federal troops to enforce the integration of schools after many people tried to stop it. Little Rock, Arkansas
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He was pulled out of jail and lynched. Poplarville, Missiissippi
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Blacks students staged a sir-in in a "whites only" restaurant. Greensboro, North Carolina
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Supreme court made segregation of bus terminals illegal
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Freedom Riders were attacked while testing compliance with desegregation of busses. The SNCC helped organize it.
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The voter registration worker killed by white legislator. Liberty, Mississippi
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Was taken from a bus and killed by police officers.Taylorsville, Mississippi
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James Meredith enrolled at Ole Miss university creating mass race riots over the black man getting into the school
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Paul Guinard was killed while reporting on th Ole Miss riots. Oxford, Mississippi
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Was kikled during one-man march against segregation. Attalia, Alabama
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Police attack kids with dogs and fire hoses
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Wallace stood in protest of the decision to integrate universities
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Civil rights leader Medgar Evers assasinated by a klan member after getting out of his car in the driveway. Jackson, Mississippi
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250,000 American people marched on Washington to protest for civil rights led by Martin Luther King Jr. He delivered his I Have A Dream Speech.
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killed 4 young school girls after leving the church. Bomb was made by a klan member. Birmingham, Alabama
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Youth klled during racist violence. Birmingham, Alabama
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Witness to the murder of a civil rights worker assasinated. Liberty, Mississippi
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While protesting construction of segregated school. Cleveland, Ohio
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Meadville, Mississippi
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Were abducted and killed by klansmen. Philidelphia, Mississippi
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This at outlawed discrimination of color, race, religion, or gender
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Was killed while driving north. Colbert, Georgia
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Civil rights worker killed by state trooper. Marion, Alabama
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At Edmund Pettus Bridge. Selma, Alabama
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Mrch volunteer was beaten to death. Selma, Alabama
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Killed by Klansmen while transporting marchers. Selma Highway, Alabama
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Thousands of African Americans and whites complete the March from Selma, Alabama to Montgomery, Alabama enduring harrasment and attacks. They showed there perserverance in order to get rights. THe march was organized for voting rights.
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Vanada, Louisiana
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Anniston, Alabama
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Hayneville, Alabama
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Tuskegee, Alabama
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Hattiesburg, Mississippi
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Natchez, Mississippi
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Bagalusa, Louisiana
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Natchez, Mississippi
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Marshall being sworn in gave the African American community a voice in the courts. He was a member of the court of appeals.
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Orangeburg, South Carolina
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James Earl Ray shot King at a motel in Memphis, Tennessee. Both whites and blacks were distraught over his killing because he had becoem such a large political figure in the country.
