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Earl Warren is Appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
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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. This led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott and eventually bus segregated was outlawed.
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Nine African American students known as the Little Rock Nine attempt to go to school. Eisenhower sends federal troops to desegregate the high school.
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Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee stages segregated lunch counter sit-ins throughout the South.
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University of Mississippi desegregated with James Meredith being the first African American enrolled.
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March to Birmingham, Violent reaction by police shocked nation. Letters from Birmingham Jail written by MLK.
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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. Jognson comes into office and expands on JFK's vison.
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Prohibits any pole tax in an election.
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Malcom X was murdered in New York City during a speech he was giving.
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Civil Rights Act passed outlawing discrimination in the workplace and public facilities.
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Voting Rights Act abolishes literacy tests in national elections, poll tax requirements abolished for state elections.
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Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tenesse while staying the Lorraine motel by Jame Earl Ray.
