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Tuskegee, Alabama
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Rosa and her mother moved to Pine Level, Alabama
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Magdar Evers was born in Dacatur Mississippi
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Rosa first got involved in civil rights by her boyfriend Raymond
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Rosa Parks gets married to Raymond Parks
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inducted into the military along with his older brother, Charles Evers
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Evers was discharged from the army as a sergeant
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Enrolled into Alcorn College and would have been majoring in
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1954- Evers helped investigate the death of Emmett Till, an African American teenage that was brutally murdered for whistling at a white woman.
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1954- Evers succeeded in getting the first black student enrolled at the University of Mississippi.
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Evers attempts to enroll into the Mississippi law school but is denied
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After his denial at Mississippi, he has decided to become the field secretary at NAACP, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, to desegregate a school in which racial discrimination was a big factor.
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Martin Luther King Jr. joined and was
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King created the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) to help lead in the civil rights movement.
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King was almost killed from an assassination attack when a man stabbed him in Harlem.
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He resigns from being a pastor to focus full time on the Civil Rights Movement and moved to Atlanta to work with the SCLC in 1959.
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1960’s- Attempt to end the segregation in Mississippi by starting and organizing the Jackson movement
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King was arrested in Atlanta for 4 months during a sit-in while waiting to be served at a restaurant.
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He was arrested again on July 27, 1962 during an unsuccessful movement in Albany, Georgia.
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On April 13, 1963 King began the Birmingham campaign.
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The campaign was a success, and by May 10th Birmingham desegregated public facilities and started hiring African Americans.
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May 28, 1963- He was harassed continuously and had a gas bomb thrown at his carport at his house
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June 12, 1963- Evers was assassinated by a Klan member by the name of Byron De LaBeckwith, who shot Evers in the back of the head.
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On June 23, 1963 125,000 people were led by King on the Freedom Walk in Detroit.
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On August 31, 1963 MLK led the March on Washington with almost 250,000 protesters and delivered his famous “I Have a Dream” speech.
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On April 4th, 1968 in Memphis Tennessee, MLK was shot and killed while standing on a balcony. His murder caused many riots in cities all across America.
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