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Upheld segregation laws and created the law "Separate but equal"
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Supreme Court case that ruled segregation unconstitutional
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African Americans boycotted busses due to segregation and the arrest of Rosa Parks
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Rosa Parks arrested for refusing to give up her seat on the bus for a white woman
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Young black boy Emmett Till was lynched by racists for talking to a white woman at a store.
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MLK was arrested during the montgomery bus boycott for the first time in his civil rights career
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Civil rights supporting president Kennedy was assasinated
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LBJ, who was also a civil rights supporter, was sworn in
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250,000 civil rights protesters gathered at the Lincoln Memorial to protest. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous "I have a dream," speech.
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LBJ was re-elected.
