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There was an 8-year-old girl living in Topeka, Kansas named Linda Brown. She has to travel by bus to a school for African-American students. Even though she lives within walking distance from an elementary school that is only for white children. Her father tries sues the state school board of Topeka. The United States Supreme Court agrees to hear what his case is.
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In Tennessee the Highlander Folk School uses workshops to teach how to organize protests for people. The school then invites civil rights workers there.
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On August 28, a 14 year old African American boy named Emmett Till, who was visiting someone was murdered near Money, Mississippi it was because he allegedly whistled at a white woman. So they beat him and killed him.
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Rosa Parks went to a workshop held at the Highlander Folk School for civil rights organizers that was in July.
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On December 5 Martin Luther King, Jr. got elected by the Montgomery Improvement Association as a president to lead the boycott.
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Whites are angry about the Montgomery Bus Boycott. The anger will result in a bombing of 4 African American churches and the homes of civil rights leaders.
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The Montgomery Bus Boycott ends in December and the result is that Montgomery buses are being fully integrated.
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Downtown Greensboro Woolworth desegregates its lunch counter in the month of July.
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On May 4, there were seven African American men and six white activists also known as the Freedom Riders leave Washington with the African American men and travel through the segregated Deep South.
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King announces that on August 10 he will be leaving Albany. The king gathers information here that is applied.
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From the months June to August the SNCC organizes a voter registration drive. It is now called the Freedom Summer.
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Malcolm X is assassinated on February 21 at the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem. On march 9th the king leads a march. There was three thousand marchers that left Selma for Montgomery on March 21, and complete the march without opposition.
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In January the SNCC announces their opposition to the Vietnam War. There were some members who felt sympathetic towards the Vietnamese.
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The king makes a speech in New York on April 4th against the Vietnam War.
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Cal Stokes became the first African American that was elected to be a mayor of a major city on November 7.
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The president at the time signs the Civil Rights Act on April 11. This act gets rid of discrimination. They can finally not be descriminated
