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Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas
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Emmit Till's Death
two white men beat him, gouged an eye out, then drowned him in a river his mother asked for an open casket viewing -
Montgomery, Alabama buss boycott
Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat in the front of a bus to a white man -
Little Rock, Arkansas facilitate integration at Central High School
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SNCC forms
student organization conceived by the SCLC took a somewhat different approach -
Freedom Riders Challenge segregation of interstate busses
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Congress passes civil rights act of 1964
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Assassination of MLK Jr.
