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In the landmark Brown v. Board of Education, the Supreme Court reverses Plessy v. Ferguson, declaring that "separate but equal" public education is unconstitutional.
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The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee found in April 1960. The organization is dedicated to ending segregation and giving young blacks a stronger voice in the civil rights movements.
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On May 4, 1961, buses are departing Washington, DC,the volunteers headed south on buses that challenged the seating order of Jim Crow segregation.
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Martin Luther King, Jr. gives the "I Have a Dream" speech in front of the Licoln memorial.
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Malcolm X's analysis and powerful speeches for Nation of Islam. The inspiration behind of the black power movement.
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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination
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Students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison protested the war in Vietnam in 1965
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Stockley Carmichael set a new tone for the black freedom movement.
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The National Organization for Women (NOW) formed.
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The nation's cities exploded with violence as angry African American shocked by his murder.