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On May 17, 1954 the Supreme Court decided to desegregate schools
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On December 1, 1955 Rosa Parks refused to give her seat to a white person and got herself arrested causing thousands of African Americans to boycott buses
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On September 4, 1957 9 African American students went to an all white school
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On Febuary 1, 1960 four black students sat down at the whites only lunch counter inside the Woolworth store
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On May 2, 1963 to keep the movement alive, thousands of childern, some as young as six hit the streets of Birmingham, Alabama
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On August 28, 1963 thousands of African Americans headed to Washington where Martin Luther King Jr. deliverd his famous "I Have A Dream" speach
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On a Sunday morning in September 1963 the KKK planted 15 sticks of dynamite on the Sixteen Street Baptist Church and killed 4 childern
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The Civil Rights Act Of 1964 outlawed segregation in public facilities
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On Auguest 6, 1965 African Americans gained the right to vote
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On April 4, 1968 King got shot to death by James Earl Ray or later got arrested
