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State of louisiana enacted a law that required seperate railway cars for blacks and whites. Homer adolph plessly took a seat in a whites only car of a lousin=ana train he refused to move to the car reserved for blacks and was arrested
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Linda Brown 8 year old girl lives within walking distance of a whie only elementary school because of segregation she has to travel by bus to a more distant school for colored people. Supreme Court decides that legal school segregation is unconstitutional
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Supreme court rules that the university of Mississipi must admit African American Student & veteran James Meredith
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Congress passes the civil rights act of 1964 banning discrimination in employment and in public places
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Supreme court hands down a decision in loving vs. virgina striking down laws against interracial marriage as unconstitutional
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Thurgood Marshall becomes first African American appointed to the Supreme Court
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Marthin Luther King Jr. is assasinated as he stands on the balcont outside his mothel room the Lorreme Motel in Memphis, Tennesse
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Fred Hampton Chairman of illionois black panther party is shoy snf killed by police during a raid