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8 year old linda brown road the school bus to go to school 5 miles away, while there was a all whites school just a couple of blocks away. When she applied at the closer school she was rejected because of her skin color
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On may 17, 1954 the USA made a law that made segregation illegal
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the government agreed to the seperate but equal for all black schools to be equal to whites.
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14-year-old African-American boy Emmett Till, from Chicago is murdered near Money, Mississippi, because he allegedly whistled at a white woman.
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Rosa parks refused to give up her seat on a bus for a white man
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Martin Luther King, Jr. is elected by the Montgomery Improvement Association as the president to lead the boycott
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Montgomery bus boycott ends, busses become desegregated
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Greensboro Woolworth desegregates its lunch counter on July 25, after six months of sit-ins.
