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Supreme court ruled school segregation unconstitutional
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Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat for a white man on the bus. This inspired mass protests to begin. This boycott eventually lead to the NAACP winning a supreme court order to desegregate the bus system.
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The SCLC was founded by Dr.King and his supporters to provide an institutional framework supporting local protest movements
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4 black college students in North Carolina staged a sit-in at a lunch drugstore counter reserved for whites only. This caused thousands of students to join the sit-in campaign. This sparked the formation of a group called Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.
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The so called "freedom rides" were intended to get the supreme court to rule desegregation on bus and rail. These rides proved that young activists could confront southern segregation at its strongest points and pressure the federal government to intervene to protect constitutional rights of African Americans
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Over 200,000 protesters gathered at the Lincoln Memorial to start the March on Washington for jobs and Freedom.
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This historic speech took place at the March on Washington. It was used as an opportunity to link black civil rights hopes and ambitions with traditional american political values.
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Clashes taking place in Birmingham prompted President John F. Kennedy to introduce legislation that would eventually become the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
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President Lyndon B. Johnson introduced legislation that became the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
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In April of 1968 Dr.King was assassinated by James Earl Ray. After this people realized the Civil Rights movement had gone too far and the Civil Rights movement ended in 1968.
