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The US Supreme Court invalidates provisions of the Virginia Code which require the seperation of white and colored passengers were applied to interstate bus transport.
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Jackie Robinson plays his first game for the Brooklyn Dodgers, becoming the first African-American to play in Major League Baseball
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Hubert Humphery makes a controversial speech in favor of American Civil Rights Movement at the Democrate National Convention
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The Supreme Court abolishes segregation in Raiload cars
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Ferdeal Court ruling upholds segregation in SC schools
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After a district court had ordered seperate but equal school facilities in South Carolina the Supreme Court agrees to hear as a part of the case Brown V Board of Education
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US Supreme Court wipes out segregation in Washington D.C.
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Protest by white parents in White Sulphur Springs, WV force schools to postpone desegregation another year.
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Oklahoma University allows black students
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The Tallahasse, Florida bus boycott begins
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President Eisenhower signs the Civil Rights Act of 1957
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Willie O'Ree breacks color barrier in the National Hockey League, in his first game playing for Boston Bruins.
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One Federal judge throws out segregation on Atlanta, GA buses, while another orders Montgomery registrars to comply with Civil Rights Comission
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Four black students sit a white's only counter at Woolworth's dine-in in Greensboro, North Carolina.
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Freedom Riders bus attacked and burned outside Anniston, Alabama
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Fidel Castro starts having missile launch sites built on Cuba
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Fidel Castro gets missiles from Russia
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President John F. Kennedy makes famous Civil Rights speech
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Twenty-fourth Amendment abolishes the poll tax for federal elections