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United States Supreme Court decides that the segregation of public schools is unconsitutional
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Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat on the bus, which sparks national publicity on the issue of race and civil rights.
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The Arkansas governor calls the national guard to Little Rock High School to block the entry of nine African American students into the school.
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Starting in July 1958, the NAACP Youth Council begin to sponser 'sit-ins' at a Kansas drug store to change its policy on segregated seating.
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The first of a number of bus rides from Northern cities into the segregated south to test the Supreme Court case, Boynton v. Virginia, which ruled that segregation in interstate travel was unconstitutional.
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Involving a number of major civil rights orginizations, the march was a call for meaningful civil rights laws, fair housing and employment, the right to vote, and integrated education.
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Throughout the summer of 1964, over 1,000 activists convened in Mississppi to join with black activists to register voters, teach in freedom schools, and organize the Freedom Democratic Party.
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Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that bans discrimination on race, color, sex or national origin in employment practices and public accomodations
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Over 600 people started a march from Selma, Alabama to Montgomery to fight for a voter registration program. Violence from federal authorities would push the marchers back to Selma before ever getting to the state capital.
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Passed by Lyndon B. Johnson, this act suspened poll taxes, literacy tests, and other voter registration tests.
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One day after his "I've been to the mountaintop" speech, MLK was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee.
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Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968, which prohibits discrimination regarding sale, rental and financing of houses based on race, religion or national origin.