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Jackie Robinson becomes first African American major league baseball player - bravely faces boo's, name calling
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President Truman ends segregation in the Armed forces
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African Americans faced discrimination and prejudice everywhere in the United States in the 1950's
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Supreme Court ruled that separate schools could never be equal - schools are ordered to desegregate
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Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white person in Montgomery, Alabama and she got arrested and jailed
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a federal judge ordered public schools in Little Rock, Arkansas to begin desegregation
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A bomb exploded at King's old headquarters, the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church. Four black girls were killed.
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Outlawed segregation in public facilities and banned discrimination in employment.
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The law outlawed "literacy tests"
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James Earl Ray was convicted for his murder. King died when the new campaign was just taking shape. King accomplished a lot of stuff.
