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Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat on the city bus to a white women because she was there first. but the consequence ended in Mrs.Parks being arrested. That began the year-long African American Bus Boycott
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For the first time since Reconstruction, the federal government uses the military to uphold African Americans' civil rights, as soldiers escort nine African American students to desegregate a school in Little Rock, Arkansas.
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Four African American college students hold a sit in to intergrate a WoolWorth's lunch counter in Greensboro, N.C. Which led to a wave of similar protest across the south.
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The CORE ( Congress of Racial Equality ) began to organize freedom rides throughout the south to de-segragate the city buses.
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Wilt Chamberlain scored 100 in a single NBA game breaking a recod that still stands today.
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More than 200,000march in Washington, D.C in the largest civil rights demonstration ever led by Martin Luther King Jr. Where he gives his famous " I Have a Dream " speech
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Martin Luther King Jr. wrote his famous " Letter From a Birmingham Jail " . Other known as his statement about the civil rights movement.
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President Lyndopn Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act, which gave the federal government power to prosecute discrimination in employment, voting, and education
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Martin Luther King Jr. was awarded to nobel peace prize.
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Race riots break out in Watts area of Los Angeles. Leaving 34 people deads and over 1000 peolpe injured.
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Thurgood Marshall became the first African American justice on the supreme court.
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Martin Luther King Jr. was murdered in Memphis Tennessee. Which created riots across the country.
