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Supreme Court strikes down segregation in schools
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A 14 year old boy is killed while visiting relatives in Mississippi. The white men that killed him are found not guilty but later confess to the murder.
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42 year old Rosa Parks is riding the bus home on a segregated bus in Montgomery, AL. She refuses to move when told to and is arrested sparking the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
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Central High School in Little Rock, AK is ordered to integrate. The governor refuses and the Army is called in to enforce the integration of the school.
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Bus trips by African American and White civil rights activist across the south to protest segregation
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Four college students refused service in a diner in Greensboro, NC refuse to leave sparking the sit in movement of the civil rights.
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Martin Luther King Jr. Pens the "Letter from the Birmingham Jail" on scraps of paper after being arrested supporting protesters. In this letter he states “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere”
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250,000 people of all races march on Washington to protest inequality. At this march Martin Luther King gives his famous "I have a dream speech".
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The Civil rights act is signed. This bill make segregation in public facilities illegal and also make illegal discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion or country of origin.
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