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The U.S. Supreme Court decision that upheld the racist policy of segregation by legalizing “separate but equal” facilities for blacks and whites.
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The first march on Washington was scheduled but was later cancelled.
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This was a group of colored people who wanted equal treatment for all.
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The U.S. Supreme Court unanimous decision that overturned the “separate but equal” doctrine in public schools.
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Emmett Till was murdered in Money, Mississippi.
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Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery City Bus and was arrested.
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The Montgomery Bus Boycott begins.
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The Little Rock 9 enter Central High School as federal troops oversee the situation sent by President Eisenhower.
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4 black college students sat at an all-white lunch counter and started a sit-in protest at a Woolworth’s store.
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Ruby Bridges was the first girl of color in grade school.
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Freedom riders begin a bus ride through the South to protest segregation.
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Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested in Birmingham protesting in the “most segregated city in America.”
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More than 250,000 people, march on Washington to demand immediate passage of the civil rights bill.
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The former President John F. Kennedy was shot and killed in Texas.
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President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law outlawing literacy tests
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Malcolm X was a Civil Rights leader but he was pro violent and later on died.
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A march from Selma to Montgomery to fight for voting rights begins.
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President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the premier legislation for Civil Rights into law.
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The riot spurred from an incident on August 11, 1965 when Marquette Frye, a young African American motorist, was pulled over and arrested by Lee W. Minikus, a white California Highway Patrolman, for suspicion of driving while intoxicated.
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Huey Newton & Bobby Seale founded the “Black Power” political group known as the Black Panthers.
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The 1967 Detroit riot, also known as the 1967 Detroit Rebellion or 12th Street riot was the bloodiest incident in the "Long, hot summer of 1967".
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Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated by James Earl Ray in Memphis.
