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Rosa Parks did not give up her seat in the front of the bus which started the Montgomery bus boycott. This is important because she stood up for the rights she deserved.
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In July, Rosa Parks goes to a workshop held at a School in highlander for civil rights organizers.
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Due to a court order, Alabama University accepts their first ever black student to attend the school Autherine Lucy, although the government finds a way to not let her attend her classes
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In the 1st 2 months of the year whites are mad about the bus boycott and in effect of their anger, it ended up in the bombing of 4 black churches and houses of civil rights leaders
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Martin Luther comes to join the protests in Albany.
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From september 30 to october 1st, riots erupt over James Meredith's enrollment at the University of Mississippi.
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On September 26, Ross Barnett, the governor of Mississippi, orders state troopers to stop Meredith from entering the University of Mississippi campus.
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JFK was murdered on november 22nd and his successor Lyndon b. Johnson used to countries anger to pass new civil rights legislation.
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On April 12, the Birmingham police arrest Martin Luther King, Jr. for demonstrating in the city without a city permit
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3 freedom summer workers escaped/ ran away and their bodies were found in a river and in a dam all badly beaten.
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From June to August, the SNCC organizes a vote registration drive in Mississippi, which is now called the Freedom Summer.
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Three Freedom Summer workers disappear on June 21, Michael Schwerner, James Chaney.
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25,000 people join the selma marchers on March 25th.
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Three thousand marchers leave Selma for Montgomery on March 21, and complete the march without opposition.
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King makes a speech on April 4 against the Vietnam War in New York.
