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BRown vs Board of Education overturned Plessy vs Ferguson making segregation illegal in schools but also applied to other public facilities
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Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus and was arrested for violating segregation laws.
Led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Eventually bus segregation was outlawed -
Nine African American students known as the Little Rock Nine attempt to go to school.
Eisenhower sends federal troops to desegrate the high school -
University of Mississippi desegregated with james Meredith beig the first African American enrolled
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King helps organize the March on Washington where he delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech
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John F. Kennedy is assassinated and Lyndon B. Johnson comes into office and expands on JFK's vision
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March to Birmingham, Violent reaction by police shocked nation.
Letters from a Birmingham Jail written by Martin Luther King Jr -
Civil Rights Act passed outlawing discrimination in the workplace and public facilities. 24th Amendment ratified
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Malcolm was a muslim leader and a human rights activist who was shot to death by black muslims.His father was a preacher who preached contreversal sermons which triggered threats from the KKK. His father moved many times and continued to preach his sermons despite the threats of the KKK and was later brutally murdered by white supremicist.
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Voting Rights Act abolishes literacy tests in national elections
Poll tax requirements abolished for state elections. -
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee stages segregated lunch counter sit-ins throughout the south
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Martin Luther King Jr was a civil rights leader and activist. He is most famous for his speech "I have a dream". On april 4th, 1968 in memphis tennesee he was shot by a sniper.
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Earl Warren is appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
