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Pasadena resident and UCLA alum Robinson breaks the color barrier by being the first black to play major league baseball in modern times
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In Montgomery, Alabama, Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat for a white man
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Where sll the blacks didnt ride the bus to prove a point that if they couldnt sit where they wantted to they weren't going to ride the bus.
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After Little Rock school board votes to integrate schools, National Guard troops prevent black children from attending school. 1000 federal paratroopers are needed to escort black students and preserve peace.
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Blacks and whites take buses to the South to protest bus station segregation. Many are greeted with riots and beatings
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5000 federal troops are sent by Pres. Kennedy to allow Meredith register for classes. Riots result in 2 deaths and hundreds of injuries
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Martin Luther rights a letter from his jail cell from toilet paper and newspaper and he uses a pen that was smuggled in for him to use.
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King is shot by James Earl Ray in Memphis, TN. After the assassination there was riots in over 125cities across the contry.
