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President Truman signed the executive order saying that segregation in armed forces was outlawed.
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The Supreme Court rules that segregation in schools is unconstitutional. GA and alot of the other states in the sou8th didnt follow this rule immediately because they set no time limit in which this had to be done.
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Rosa Parks, NAACP member, refuses to give up her seat in the front of the bus to a white person. Following her arrest, there began a bus boycott that went on for over a year, including buss boycotts in Georgia.
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MLK, Charles Steele, and Fred Shuttlesworth established the Southern Christian Leadrship Conference.This was a big part of organizing the Civil Rights Movement andhelped keep nonviolence. Many residents of GA were involved in this organization.
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In Greensboro, NC, 4 students started a sit-in at Woolworths where they sat at the "Whites Only" counter and protested nonviolently. These sit-ins statred happening all opver the United States, including GA.
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The Student Non-violent Coordinating Comitee was founded to give students more of a voice than the SCLC. Students felt that the adults had more of a say in the SCLC and they wanted to have more of a stand as a younger population.
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Student Volunteers began to take rides in buses across the country where blacks and whites were mixed throughout the bus. Freedom riders often were beaten, killed, or protested against just for what they believed in.
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200,000 people gather in Washington D.C. to listen to Civil Rights activist, Martin Luther King Jr. give his famous "I have a dream.." speech.
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Standing on his hotel balcony, civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated by James Earl Ray, a racist.
