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On this day the US Supreme Court ruled school segregation unconstitutional.
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In Montgomery, Alabama Rosa Parks will not move to the back of a bus on her way home from work. This results in boycotts and the eventual ruling that public transportation segregation is unconstitutional.
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Southern Congressman were not happy with the decisions of desegregation by the Supreme Court. So many laws were not being honored.
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The NAACP organized a plan to send nine well qualified students to a previously all white Central Highschool in Little Rock Arkansas. The Governor of Arkansas tried to block the students, only to be overruled by President Eisenhower. The Nine Entered unharmed.
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Four Black College Students start sit ins at a local restaurant where Black patrons are not served.
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Congress approved a watered down voting rights for African Americans. This was the result of a filibuster by Southern Senators.
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The Freedom Riders conducted multiple marches during the civil rights movement. Their first March went from Washington D.C. Into the Southern states.
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In 1962 the supreme court ruled it illegal and unconstitutional in all situations and states to segregate any kind of public transportation.
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The department of defense orders the full integration of military. Except for the national guard.
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President Kennedy sends troops to Mississipi to quell riots. These riots were the result of a Black student trying to enroll in the University.
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The Civil rights leader Medger Evers is killed by a snipers bullet. He was shot in the driveway of his own home, holding NAACP t-shirts in hand.
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Martin Luther King delivers his famous speech to hundreds of thousands during the march on Washington. One of the most famous speeches ever delivered.
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The Bombing of a Church in Birmingham Alabama leaves four black girls dead. It was done during church services.
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The Civil Rights Act made all kinds of injustices based on race illegal. This act was passed after a 75 day long filibuster
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Malcom X a civil rights activist and muslim minister was assasinated in New York City.
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Congress passes another voting rights piece of legislation bettering the voting conditions for black citizens
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Martin Luther king is assassinated by a sniper while staying in a hotel in Memphis tennessee. The March of the poor which was planned by doctor king is carried out succesfully after his death.
