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Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas
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Emmett Till kidnapped and killed for allegedly whistling at a white woman
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Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat in the colored section of the bus
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Nine Black students are refused to enter a white school, President Eisenhower sends troops to fight on their behalf
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Four Black students sit at a segregated lunch table
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James Meredith becomes the first black student to enroll at the university of Mississippi.
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Martin Luther King jr. is arrested in Birmingham and writes his "Letter from a Birmingham jail"
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Martin Luther King jr. makes his famous "I Have a Dream" Speech in Washington D.C.
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Three Civil Rights workers are killed by the KKK
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Malcom X shot to death in Harlem
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Black Panthers are founded by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale.
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Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated by James Earl Ray