Civil Rights Movement 1940-1960; Organized black Americans to end racial discrimination and gain equality
By martecm
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Supreme Court rules and ends racial segregration in public schools
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Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat on the bus and starts a year long boycott of Montgomery buses
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Martin Luther King Jr. and 60 pastors meet in Atlanta to plan non-violent protests
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Nine black students are blocked from entering Central High School. Eisenhower sends federal troops to escort the students.
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Eisenhower signs the Civil Rights Act of 1957 to protect voter rights.
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Four college students in Greensboro, NC refuse to give up their seats at the 'whites only' counter in Woolworth's and it sparks sit-ins around the country.
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Governor George C. Wallace blocks the doorway of the University of Alabama to keep two black students from registering. John F. Kennedy sends in the National Guard.
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250,000 people march on Washington and Martin Luther King Jr. gives his "I Have a Dream' speech
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A bomb kills four young girls and hurts several others at the 16th Street Baptist Church and starts angry protests.
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Lyndon B. Johnson signs Civil Rights Act of 1964 which prevents employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, sex, religion, or national origin.
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Malcolm X is assassinated by members of the Nation of Islam.
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600 civil rights marchers walk from Selma to Montgomery protesting black voter suppression.
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Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to prevent the use of literacy tests as a voting requirement.
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Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated by James Earl Ray.