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Montgomery bus boycott
Rosa Parks started a bus boycott -
Freedom riders oppose segregation
Many people took buses to the south to protest -
Medgar Evers murdered
Head of Mississippi NAACP was shot outside his home -
March on Washington
Over 200,000 people went to Washington to protest racial injustace -
Bombing of Birmingham church
4 children died because someone planted a bomb in the church -
24th Amendment passed
This law allowed blacks to vote -
Civil Rights Act passed
This made laws forbidding racial discrimination -
Malcolm X assassinated
He rejected intergration and nonviolence -
Selma to Montgomery march
54 mile march to support black voter registration -
King was assassinated
Killed by James Earl Ray
