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Topeka, Kansas, declares that racial segregation in schools is unconstitutional.
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front of the “colored section” of a bus to a white passenger. In response to her arrest Montgomery’s black community launched a successful year-long bus boycott. Montgomery’s buses were desegregated on Dec. 21, 1956.
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a civil rights group, is established by Martin Luther King, Charles K. Steele, and Fred L. Shuttlesworth.
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He wrote this speech containing the civil right movement along with it being the last speech that day. because after he spoke nobody else thought it was nothing else better to be said!
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is attended by about 250,000 people, the largest demonstration ever seen in the nation’s capital.
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It prohibited any kind of discrimination based on race, religion, color, or national origin.
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Believed that the non-violent campaign of Martin Luther King had failed and any promised changes to their lifestyle
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on the balcony outside his hotel room. Escaped convict and committed racist James Earl Ray is convicted of the crime.
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strengthening existing civil rights laws and providing for damages in cases of intentional employment discrimination.
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Los Angeles after a jury acquits four white police officers for the videotaped beating of African American Rodney King.
