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Founded, allowed tribes forced into the United States government to have their own rule.
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Established to investigate civil rights in states and find ways to strengthen and protect them.
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Becomes the first black major league baseball player for the Brooklyn Dodgers.
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The original end of the Bracero Program entitling a five year period mexican workers could work and live in the U.S initially ends, causing racial tensions towards those who remained, even after extension of the program.
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President Truman sends out an executive order that armed forces were legally supposed to be mixed of race.
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Arkansas becomes the first state to allow mixed races at high schools and universities.
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Little Richard begins the formation of the music genre rock n' roll.
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The number of radio stations directed at African American listeners peaks to 250.
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A debate over children having to walk to black schools when white ones were closer because of segregation that began in 1951 is decided in favor of the thirteen parents backing Mr. Brown.
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The Montgomery Bus Boycotts officially begin after years of tension with the arrest of Rosa Parks.
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The United States Congress outlaws bus segregation.
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The group nicknamed the Little Rock Nine integrate into Little Rock Central High School.
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Martin Luther King Jr. and thirty-three other non-violent protestors are arested in Atlanta, GA for a sit-in at a restrurant.
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A Freedom Riders bus is firebombed by Klu Klux Klansmen, and are mercilessly beaten after the Klan failed to hold the doors shut to burn them to death.
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A policy put into affect against aiding Native American reserves is abandoned.
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Martin Luther King makes his legendary speech in Washington D.C.
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Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlaws major forms of discrimination against race, religion and gender.
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Multi-civil rights activist Malcolm X is shot and killed by three members of the Nation of Islam.
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The Voting Rights Act of 1965 outlaws unfair voting practices such as literary tests against black voters.