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Supreme Court agrees that segregated schools are unconstitutional. The decision overturns the 1896 Plessy V. Ferguson ruling "separate but equal."
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NAACP member, Rosa Parks, refused to give up her seat at the front of the bus to a white man, defying the southern customs. This lead to the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
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The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) is founded at Shaw University, providing young blacks a place in the civil rights movement.
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Student volunteers began taking trips through the South, testing out laws that prohibit segregation. They were attacked by angry mobs along the way. The program was sponsored by The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
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Main Civil Rights activist gets arrested during anti-segregation protests in Birmingham, Alabama.
