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Discrimination Began
African Americans faces discrimination and prejudice everywhere in the US -
school segregation
21 states with segregated schools in the US -
16th Street Baptist Church Bombing
a bomb exploded outside the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church killing four African American girls attending sunday school -
Civil Rights Act of 1954
banned segregation in public facilities, discrimination in employment based on a person's race, gender, religion, or nationality -
School Segregation Ended
Supreme Court announced its decision to end school segregation "with all deliberate speed" -
Rosa Parks' Arrest
Rosa Parks was arested for not giving up her seat on a bus to a white man -
Crisis in Little Rock
a federal judge ordered public schools in Little Rock, Arkansas to begin desegregation but then Orval Faubus vowed to resist the order -
Malcolm X
The NAtion of Islam's most effective leader, urged Blacks to be proud of their blackness and their African roots -
Greensboro Lunch Counter Sit In
lost 1/3 of its business and desegregated all of its restaurants -
Dr.King's Assassination
King was shot in Memphis, Tennessee by a white man, James Earl Ray