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In the Brown v. Board of Education case, blacks were now granted the right to share facilities with whites. The Plessy v. Ferguson case of 1896 made blacks and whites be separated in public facilities. The result of the Brown v. Board case was both blacks and whites shared the same public buildings.
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George Lee gets killed for leading voter-registration drive in Baizoni, Mississippi
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Lamar Smith was murdered for organizing black voters in Brookhaven Mississippi.
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Emett Louis Till was murdered for speaking to a white women in Money Mississippi.
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Slain by neighbors opposed to school improvements in Mayflower, Texas.
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On December first, 1955, a black women named Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat after being yelled and hollored at by a white. As a result, she got arrested for sticking up for her moral rights.
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Montgomery bus boycott begins in Montgomery Alabama.
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Supreme court bans segregated seating on Montgomery buses.
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Willie Edwards Jr. was killed by Klansmen (K.K.K.) in Montgomer Alabama.
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The civil rights act-enacted by Eisenhower, during his presidency-began a new era in the civil rights movement. This act started the Civil Rights section of the justice department, and also allowed blacks to vote.
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In Little Rock, Arkansas, nine African American high schoolers started attending a previously "white only" school. These kids were met with racial epithets and even lynch threatonings by the other classmates. The federal government ordared troops to protect and keep peace at the school.
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Taken from jail and lynched by mobsters. In Poplarville Mississippi.
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Black students stage a sit-it at a "whites only" counter in Greensbero, North Carolina.
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The Supreme Court outlaws segregation in bus terminals.
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Freedom Riders were mostly African Americans who sat in previously "white" bus seats to test the outcome of the Boynton v. Virginia court case which ruled segregated busses unconstitutional. The people who helped organize these riders were part of an organization called CORE. The Congress of Raciel Equality recruited riders to go on freedom rides. While mostly black, there were also whites who helped the cause.
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Herbert Lee-a voter registration worker-was killed by a white legislatorin Liberty, Mississippi.
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Civil rights groups join forces to launch a voter registration drive.
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Roman Ducksworth Jr. was taken and killed by the police in Tayforsville, Mississippi.
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Riots erupt when a black man, James Meredith enrolls at Ole Miss. Kennedy eventually called in thousand of troops to subdue the enraged crowd.
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French reporter killed during the James Meredith/Ole Miss riot. Oxford Mississippi
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Slain during one-man march against segregation. Attalla AL
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Birmingham police attack marching children with dogs and fire hoses. Birmingham AL
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Alabama governor, George Wallace stands in a schoolhouse's door to stop university integration.
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Medgar Evers was a civil rights leader who was assassinated in Jackson Mississippi. Leading up to the assassination, Evers had recieved many death threats, and was even attempts on his life were made. including a molotov cocktail being thrown into his house.
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The purpose on the March on Washington was to pressure the administration of John F. Kennedy to initiate a strong federal civil rights bill in Congress. During this march, Martin Luther King Jr. announced his "I Have a Dream" speech.
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Addie Mae Collins, Denise McNair, Carole Robertson, and Cynthia Wesley were all schoolgirls that parished in the bombing of the Sixteen Street Baptist Church. Birmingham AL
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Youth killed during a wave of racist violence in Birmingham Alabama.
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Poll tax outlawed in federal elections.
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Witness to murder of civil rights worker assassination. Liberty Mississippi.
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Killed protesting construction of segregated school in Cleveland Ohio.
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Killed by Klansman (K.K.K.) Meadville Mississippi
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Freedom Summer brings 1,000 young civil rights voulenteers to Mississippi.
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Civil rights activists who were abducted and slain by Klansmen. Philidelphia Mississippi
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President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964. This law outlawed discrimination because on race, color, religion, gender, or national origin.
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Killed by Klansmen while driving north. Colbert Georgia.
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Civil rights marcher killed by trooper. Marion Alabama
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State troopers beat back marchers at Edmund Pettus bridge in Selma Alabama.
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March voulenteer beaton to death in Selma, Alabama.
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The march of Selma was organized because the goal for the African American marchers was to register voting rights in the south. During the march, the marchers were violently opposed by police, and raciests. The outcome of this march was African Americans were now given voting rights.
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Killed by Klansmen while transporting marchers in Varnado Louisiana.
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African American killed by nightriders in Varnado, Louisiana.
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Congress passes the Voting Rights Act of 1965
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Killed by nighriders in Alabama.
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Seminary student killed by deputy in Hayneville, Alabama.
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Student civil rights activist killed in dispute in Tuskegee, Alabama.
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Black community leader killed in Klan bombing in Hattiesburg, Mississippi.
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Killed by Klansmen in Natchez, Mississippi.
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Slain by nightriders in Begalusa, Louisiana.
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Civil rights leader killed after getting a promotion in a "white" person's job in Natchez, Mississippi.
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During the assassination, Martin Luther King Jr. was giving an inspiring "far well" speech as if he'd known what was about to befall him. His assassination impacted the lives of millions of americans. It impacted both whites and blacks because he was such a huge role and influence during the civil rights movement.
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Civil rights worker killed by police when they fired on protesters in Jackson, Mississippi.
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Before becoming a supreme court justice, Thurgood Marshall was a very successful lawyer. I believe this was a onumental event because African Americans now had a set position in the American government.
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Students killed when highway patrolmen fired on protesters in Orangeburg, South Carolina.
