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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to organize southern church leaders to participate in non-violent demonstrations for advocacy of civil rights
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Freedom Rides were organized as sit-ins on buses, bus stations, and station restaurants to oppose the 1960 Boynton v. Virginia ruling allowing segregation on buses and in stations.
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250,000 people peacefully marched in DC to bring national attention to Kennedy's civil rights bill. Dr. MLK's speech started based on President Lincoln's emancipation speech 100 years prior but halfway through, MLK put down his notes and spoke from his heart and it became the I Have A Dream speech.
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Most impactful legislation since the Reconstruction. Started by President Kennedy and banned voting and employment discriminations, as well as banning discrimination in public businesses and withholding federal grant money to any agency that participated in discrimination.
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MLK assassinated resulting in riots breaking out in over 120 cities
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President Kennedy shot to death while riding in a convertible doing campaigning just after winning the California primary in preparation for the coming re-election.
