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President Harry Truman issues executive order 9981 to end segregation in the armed services
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a consolidation of five cases into one, is decided by the supreme court to end segregation in schools
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Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat on a bus for a white man in Montgomery, Alabama
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sixty blacks pastors including MLK JR show up in Atlanta, Georgia to coordinate nonviolent protests
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Nine black students` known as "the little rock nine" are blocked from integrating in central high school in Little Rock
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Eisenhower signs the civil rights act of 1957 into law to help protect voters
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four college students in Greensboro, North Carolina refuse to leave an all-white lunch counter without being served
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Governor George C. Wallace stands in front of a door on a college campus in Alabama so that 2 black students can't enroll until JFK sends the National Guard to the school
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250,000 people marched to Washington DC for jobs and freedom.
This is where Martin Luther King Junior gave his "I have a dream" speech
