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African americans refused to ride the city buses in Montgomery, Alabama to protest segregated seating, took place from December 5, 1955, to December 20, 1956.
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Governor Orval Faubus ordered the Arkansas National Guard to prevent African American students from enrolling at Central High School. Central High was an all white school.
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At the age of 43, Kennedy was the youngest man elected president and the first Catholic.
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10 men sat at a "whites only" counter in Rock Hill, South Carolina in a protest against segregation. They were arrested and nine were sentenced to 30 days labor on a chain gang.
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A group of 13 African American and white civil rights activists launched the Freedom Rides, a series of bus trips through the American South to protest segregation in interstate bus terminals
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drive in Birmingham Martin Luther King Jr and SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Conference) oppose local laws that support segregation. Riots, fire-bombing, and police are used against protestors
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In response to white ministers who urge him to stop causing disturbances, King issues articulate statement of nonviolent resistance to wrongs of American society
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Head of Mississippi NAACP is shot outside his home on the same night that Pres. Kennedy addresses the nation on race,
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March on Washington
More than 200,000 blacks and whites gather before Lincoln Memorial to hear speeches Including King's "I Have a Dream" and protest racial injustice -
Bombing of the church
4 black girls were killed by the bomb planted in church, and many other people injured; outrage over the incident and the violent clash between protesters and police. -
citizens in some states had to pay a fee to vote in a national election. This fee was called a poll tax.
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Martin Luther king Jr leads 54-mile march to support black voter registration. Despite attacks from police and interference from Gov. Wallace, marchers reach Montgomery.
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Voting rights act
Southern black voter registration grows by over 50% and black officials are elected to various positions. In Mississippi, black voter registration grew from 7% to 67% -
raged for six days and resulted in more than forty million dollars worth of property damage, Marquette Frye, a young African American motorist, was pulled over and arrested by Lee W. Minikus, a white California Highway Patrolman, for suspicion of driving while intoxicated
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Martin luther king jr's Last speechWhile supporting sanitation workers' strike which had been marred by violence in Memphis, King is shot by James Earl Ray. Riots result in 125 cities
