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Broke the color barrier for baseball
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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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MLK was named president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
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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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The letter that MLK wrote to other religious leaders telling him to wait and stop his actions was issued to the public
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NAACP secretary was shot outside of his Jackson Mississippi home
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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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A bombing at a church in Birmingham kills 4 girls ans injures several others during a service.
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President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law outlawing literacy tests.
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MLK earns the Nobel Peace Prize.
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Malcolm X was killed during a rally by members of Islam.
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A march from Selma to Montgomery to fight for voting rights begins.
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Resulted in 40 million dollars of property damage, being the largest and costliest rebellion in civil rights era.
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President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law outlawing literacy tests.
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Huey Newton & Bobby Sealey founded the “Black Power” political group known as the Black Panthers.
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Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated by James Earl Ray in Memphis.
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Prevented house and discrimination based on race, gender,etc
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Kennedy was shot after giving a speech to celebrate his win in the California primary
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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.
