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After a black woman wouldn't give her seat up to a white man on a Montgomery bus, she started a bus boycott that lasted over a year.
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Civil rights leaders and pastors meet to plan nonviolent protests against racial discrimination.
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President signs Civil Acts Rights of 1957 for voter rights.
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Four students started a boycott against lunch counters in Greensboro, eventually getting over a hundred others to join in. They ended up getting served!
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A peaceful march that resulted in one of the most popular ones with 250,000 people there (blacks and whites)! This was all for equality.
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Church in Birmingham bombed, killing young girls. This starts multiple angry protests.
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President Johnson signs law that "guaranteed equal employment for all limited the use of voter literacy tests and allowed federal authorities to ensure public facilities were integrated."
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600+ people walk in protest to black voting suppression.
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MLK assassinated, opening people's eyes'.
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President signs act that promises equal housing no matter race, religion, etc.