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Supreme Court ourlaws school segregation in Brown v. Board of Education
-Plessy vs. Ferguson allowed seperate but equal facilities
-The segregation of students in public schools in Topeka Kansas violates the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment
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The Rev. George Lee was killed for leading voter-registration drive in Belzoni, Mississippi
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Lamar Smith was murdered for organizing black voters in Brookhaven, Mississippi
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Emmett Louis Till was murdered for speaking to a white woman in Money, Mississippi
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John Earl Reese was slain by nightriders opposed to school improvements in Mayflower, Texas
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Rosa Parks arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama
-Rosa was sitting near the front of the bus by the whites and when asked to move the the back, she refused the white man
-Rosa was arrested for Civil Disobedience and sparked the 381-day boycott of the Montgomery Bus System -
Montgomery bus boycott begins
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Supreme court bans segregated seating on Montgomery buses
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Willie Edwards Jr. was killed by Klansmen in Montgomery, Alabama
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Congress passes the first civil rights act since recontruction
-President Eisenhower passed the law
-It was primarily a voting rights bill -
President Eisenhower orders federal troops to enforce school desegregation in Little Rock, Arkansas
-Law enforcement was sent to schools to impliment desegregation
-They would stay with the students so they were not harmed physicaly or emotoinaly -
Mack Charles Parker was taken from jail and lynched in Pearl River County, Mississippi
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Black students stage a sit-in and 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 desegregation laws
-The CORE and the SNCC helped organize the freedom riders
-There were Blacks and Whites -
Herbert Lee was a voter registration worker and was killed by white legislator
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Civil rights groups join forces to launch voter registration drive
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CPL. Roman Ducksworth Jr. was taken from a bus and killed by police
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Riots erupt when James Meredith, a black student, enrolls at Ole Miss
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Paul Guihard, a French reporter, was killed during Ole Miss riot
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William Lewis Moore was slain during one-man march against segregation
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Birmingham police attack marching children with dogs and fire hoses
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George Wallace stands in schoolhouse door to stop university integreation
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Medgar Evers, a civil rights leader, was assassinated in Jackson, Mississippi
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250,000 Americans march on Washington for civil rights
-MLK's I have a dream speach was held at the march -
Addie Maecollins, Denise Mcnair, Carole Robertson, Cynthia Wesley were the schoolgirls killed in the bombing of Sixteenth Street Baptist Church
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Youth killed during wave of racist violence
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Poll tax outlawed in federal elections
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Witness to murder of civil rights worker assassinated
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Killed protesting construction of segregated school
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Killed by Klansmen
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Freedom Summer brings 1,000 young civil rights volunteers to Mississippi
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Civil rights workers abducted and slain by Klansmen
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President Johnson signs Civil Rights Act of 1964
-It outlawed discrimination between races -
Killed by Klansmen while driving north
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Civil Rights marcher killed by state trooper
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State Troopers beat back marchers at Edmund Pettus Bridge
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-The march was organized to try to get black voters registered in the South
-They were beaten back by state troopers and angry whites
-The Voting Rights Act wasput in place -
March volunteer beaten to death
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Thousands complete the selma to Montgomery Voting Rights march
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Killed by Klansmen while trasporting marchers
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Black deputy killed by nightriders
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Congress passes Voting Rights Act of 1965
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Killed by nightriders
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Seminary student killed by deputy
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Student civil rights activist killed in dispute
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Black community leader killed in Klan bombing
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Killed by Klansmen
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Slain by nightriders
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Civil Rights leader killed after promotion to 'white' job
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Civil Rights worker killed when police fired on protesters
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-He was a lawyer in the Brown v. Board of Education case
-He was defying everything to do with racism at the time -
Students killed when highway partolmen fire on protesters
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Assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee
-He was shot at his motel
-It showed how much civil rights meant to both blacks and whites
