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In the 1950’s 17 states fully enforced the Jim Crow laws, which made segregation in every day places such as parks, schools, shops and buses between black and white people.
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In 1954 the legal case of Brown v Board of Education of Topeka made it illegal to prevent black students going to schools for whites.
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1955 The Montgomery bus boycott non- violent direct action
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In 1955. Rosa Parks says no when she refused to stand up and give her seat to a white man.
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In 1957 Little Rock Arkansas saw civil unrest when the Governor Orval Faubus was ordered by President Eisenhower to allow 9 black students to join a school for whites.
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In 1960 Greensboro North Carolina SNCC Students begin a campaign to end segregation in restraunts. 400 black and white students were organizing sit ins at lunch counters.
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In 1960 Nashville Tennesse 500 students organized sit ins in restraunts, libraries, and churches
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In 1960 Malcom X and the Black Panther movement
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In 1961 CORE Activists formed protests called freedom rides.
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In 1961 President Kenedy vowed to defend civil rights. Where he promised to introduce a civil rights bill.
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In 1963 April Martin Luther King organized a march on Birmingham and Alabama.President Keneddy interviened stopping police brutality on the black people.
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In 1963 S eptember the Ku Klux Klan bombed four black children in a Birmingham church.
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In 1963 Martin Luther Kings I have a dream speech
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In 1964 the Civil Rights Act and the freedom summer was passed by President Lyndom Johnson.
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In 1965 Martin Luther King targeted the issue of voting rights in Alabama.
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In 1965 President Johnson pushed through a Voting Rights Bill.
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In 1965 Malcolm X Death
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In 1968 Congress passed the Voting Rights Bill.
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In 1968 Martin Luther King death