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The Supreme Court decides that the Plessy v, Ferguson deciosion "serperate but equal" is, in fact, not okay. Proceeding this case, black children were enrolled in white schools.
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Rosa Parks is arrested in the Montgomery Bus Boycott for not giving up her seat to a white person. Martin Luther King, Jr. is chosen to lead the boycott. It lasted 381 days.
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Two buses took the Freedom Riders on a trip through the South to ensure that it was desegregated. Many of the Freedom Riders were badly beaten up and the bus was even bombed.
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Martin Luther King, Jr. gives his "I Have A Dream" speech. 250,000 people heard the speech in Washington, D.C.
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Robert Kennedy had just won the California Primary and he was surely going to be our next president. He was a supporter of Civil Rights, and although his death didn't have anything to do with the Civil Rights, they felt that they truly lost a leader.
