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Supreme Court outlaws school segregation in Brown v. Board of education. This case was about the segregation of black children in puplic schools.
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The Rev. George Lee was killed for leading voter-registration drive Befzoni, Mississippi.
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Lamar Smith murdered for organizing black voters in Brookhaven, Mississippi.
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Emmett Louis Till was murdered for speaking to a white women in Money, Mississippi.
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JOhn Earl Reese slain by nightriders opposed to school improvments in Mayflower, Texas.
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Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man. When Rosa got onto the bus she was instructed by the driver to sit in the back of the bus and give that seat o a white male. In that time amfrican americans sat in the back so white people didn't have to look at them .
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Montgomery bus boycott begins
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Supreme court bans segregated seating on Montgomery buses.
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Willie Edward jr. was killed by Klanmen in Montgomery, Alabama.
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Congress passes first civil rights act since reconstruction era. Has been 82 years since last civil rights act passed. It was passed to give more rights to Afrcan Americans.
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President Eisenhower orders federal troop to enforce school desgregation in Little Rock, Arkansas. A high school was opening for african Americans, the president wanted to send troop to make sure nothing got out of hand.
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Mack Charles Parker was taken from jail and lynched in Poplarville, Mississippi.
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Black students stage sit-in on a "whites Only" lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina.
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Supreme court outlaws segregation in bus terminals.
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Freedom riders attacked in Alabama while testing compliance with bus desgregation laws.
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Voter registration workers killed by white legislator in Liberty, Mississippi.
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Civil rights groups jion forces to launch voter registration drive
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Roman Ducksworth jr. Taken from bus and killed by police in Toyforsville, Mississippi.
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Riots erupt when James Meredith, a black student, enrolls at Ole Miss. James was a student at Univrsity of Mississippi and had U.S Marshalls excort him but two men got shot.
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Paul Guihard french reporter killed during Ole Miss riot Okford, Mississippi.
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William LEwis was slain during one-man march against segregation in Atlanta, Alabama
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Birmingham police attack marching children with dogs and fire hoses.
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Alabama Governor George Wallace stands in schoolhouse door to stop university integration.
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Medgar evers civil rights leader assassinated in Jackson, Mississippi. Civil rights activist and was trying to get eqaulity in the university of Mississippi.
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250,000 Americans marched on Washington for civil rights. Marching and fighting for their freedom and jobs, Martin Luther King jr. was there to give his famous "I have a Dream" speach.
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Assie Mae Collins, Denise Mcnair, Carole Robertson, Cyntha Wesley, were killed in schoolgirls killed in bombing of sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Bringham, Alabama.
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Virgil Lamar Ware youth killed during wave of racist violence in Bringham, Alabama.
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Poll tax outlawed in federal elections.
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Louis Allen was a witness to murder of civil rights worker assassinated at Liberty, Mississippi.
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The REV. Bruce Klunder was killed protesting construction of segregated school in Cleveland, Ohio.
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Henry Hezekiahdee and Charles eddie moore were killed by klansmen in Meadville, Mississippi.
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Freedom Summer brings 1,000 young civil rights volunteers to Mississippi.
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James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner were civil rights workers abducted and slain by Klansmen in PHiladelphia, Mississippi.
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President Johnson signs Civil RIghts Act of 1964
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Col. Lemuel Penn was killed by Klansmen while driving north in Corbert, Georgia.
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Jimmie Lee Jackson civil rights marcher was killed by state trooper in Marian, Alabama.
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State troopers beat back marchers at Edmund Oettys Bridge in Salem, Alabama. The nonviolent marchers marched their way halfway over the bridge when stopped by state troopers who told them to turn around when they didn't they threw teargas and beat them with clubs.
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James Reed march volunteer who was beaten to death in Selma,Alabama.
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Thousands complete the Selma to Montgomery voting rights march.
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Viola Liuzzo killed by Klansmen while transporting marchers in Selma HIghway, Alabama.
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Oneal Moore black deouty killed by nightriders in Vanado, Louisiana.
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COngress passes Voting Rights Act of 1965
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Willie Brewster ws killed by nightriders in Anniston, Alabama
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Jonathan Daniels seminary student killed by deputy in Hayneville, Alabama
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Samuel Younge jr student civil rights actvist was killed in dispute in Tuskegge, Alabama
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Vernon Dahmer a black communtiy leade was killed in Klan bombing in Hattiesbrag, Mississippi
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Ben Chester White was killed by Klansman in Natchez, Mississippi
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CLarence Triggs was slain by nghtriders in Bagulsa,Louisiana
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Wharlest Jackson a civil rights leader kiled after promotion to 'white jobs' in Natchez, Mississippi
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Bejamin Brown a civil rights worker killed when police fired on protesters in Jackson, Mississippi.
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Thurgood Marshall sworn in as first blck supreme court justice.
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Samuel Hammond, Delano Middleton, Henry Smith were students killed when highway patrolmen fire on protesters in Orangburg, South Carolina
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Martin Luther King jr was assasinated in Memphis, Tennesse