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Case where it was ruled that it was okay for black and white students to be separate because they were "separated but equal".
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Rosa Parks was arrested because she refused to give up her seat for a white passenger.
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The US Supreme Court ruled that it was unconstitutional for buses to be segregated.
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Nine African-American teenagers enrolled in a formerly all white high school in Little Rock, Arkansas to test Brown vs. Board of Education. One the first day of school the entrances were blocked and they weren't allowed in. Later that month, federal troops were sent to escort the kids into the school.
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John F. Kennedy was elected President of the United States.
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Medgar Evers was assassinated because of his act in the Civil Rights Movement. Evers was an activist for black people and the first field secretary for the NAACP
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At Lincoln Memorial Dr. Martin Luther King gave his infamous "I have a dream" speech about equality for all races.
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Malcolm X was murdered because he was an active advocate for civil rights and he was an activist.
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Before, is was previously illegal for people of different races to be married. This was punishable by jail time for each partner. This case started the domino effect of states making it legal of different races being allowed to marry.
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Nearly 31 years after Medgar Evers was murdered, his killer, Byron de la Beckwith was finally convicted and sentenced life in prison
