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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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Executive Order 8802 ends segregation of Government employment. This lead to the cancellation of A. Philip Randolph's march on Washington.
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Originally called for a march on Washington. This was before Martin Luther King Jr. even called for one.
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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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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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Medgar Evers is killed outside his home the same night that Kennedy addresses the nation on race.
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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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24th Amendment bans the poll tax
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President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the premier legislation for Civil Rights into law.
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Killed in February 1965, in New York by members of Nation of Islam due to learning secrets.
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Riots in Watts, CA. on week after voting rights act signed and they lasted for 6 days.
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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 Voting Rights Act into law outlawing literacy tests.
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James Meredith is killed
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Huey Newton & Bobby Seale founded the “Black Power” political group known as the Black Panthers.
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Thurgood Marshall became the 1st African American Supreme Court Justice.
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Bobby Kennedy was important to the movement, because he soothed the African Americans in the movement after MLK Jr.'s death. He gave a speech in which could've ended in a riot, but soothed the crowd and people looked up to him. In June 1966, He is shot and killed in California by Sirhan Sirhan. This led to the riot outbreaks due to the people's hope being taken away from them again.
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Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated by James Earl Ray in Memphis.
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In 1981, Michael Donald is killed in Alabama. His mom tried the KKK in trial and Henry Hays & James Knowles found guilty and the end of the KKK headquarters, due to them not being able to pay what they were ordered to in court which led to their bankruptcy and having to be shut down.
