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Truman signs Executive Order 9981
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Supreme Court rules segregation is unconstitutional
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Rosa Parks refuse to give up her seat to a white person
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Martin Luther King, Charles K. Steele, and Fred L. Shuttlesworth establish the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
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Central High School accepts nine black students into the formally all white school
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Four black students from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College begin a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter
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The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) is founded at Shaw University
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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 is arrested and jailed during anti-segregation protests in Birmingham, Alabama
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Mississippi's NAACP field secretary, 37-year-old Medgar Evers, is murdered outside his home
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About 200,000 people join the March on Washington.
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President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964
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Martin Luther King, at age 39, is shot as he stands on the balcony outside his hotel room