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After Rosa Parks was wrongfully jailed for not sitting in the back of a bus. The African-American community suspended use of all city busses.
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Linda Brown was not able to attend a school for whit echildren in walking distance from her home. Instead she had to take the bus to a black school across town. So her father sued the Board of Education and won, outlawing school segregation.
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Emmit Till is murdered after being tracked down and brutally beat after whistling at a white woman.
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9 black children enrolled in an all-white school resulting in an extreme uprising in the white community.
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Sit-ins commenced at dozens of lunch counters that would not serve blacks.
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A group of black protest leaders driving from Washington D.C in buses encountered problems with the KKK including being beat up and having their bus lit on fire.
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THe black community initiated a numerous amount of protests and marches.
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While Martin Luther King is in jail he writes a letter to everyone addressing the current situation.
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When blacks were finally allowed to vote, non of them wanted to. They were all to afraid and scared for their lives.
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The University of Mississippi must allow black students to enroll.
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When 4 kids were changing clothes in a church in birmingham a bomb exploded killing them all. The bomb was planted there by the KKK.
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Civil rights workers were killed on the road in their car in Philidelphia Mississippi
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Congress passes the Civil Rights Act of 1964 which outlaws the discrimination of blacks in employment and public places.
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After a community of blacks were forced out of a church while praying a man named Jimmie Lee Jackson.
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On a march to the statehouse in Alabama blacks were stopped by state troopers and beat.
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14 Days after bloody sunday another huge march was commencing for voting rights.
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The supreme court ruled laws against interacial marriage unconstitutional.
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Thurgood Marshall is the first African American appointed to the supreme court.
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Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated while driving in a parade.
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Fred Hampton leader of the Black Panthers is shot and killed.
