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The surpreme court unanimously agrees on segregation in public schools is unconstutional.
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Fourteen year old Emmet Till who was visiting a relative from chicago, was brutally bashed by two white men after Emmet had spoken to a white woman.
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Sitting on a "coloured selection" bus Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat when asked by a white man to move.
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nine african americans attend a non segregated school, facing huge crowds of mobs and abuse from white americans
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Over the spring and summer black students test out the new law of de-segregated busses by travelling to the south
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James Meredith becomes the first black student to enroll at the University of Mississippi. Violence and riots surrounding the incident cause President Kennedy to send 5,000 federal troops to escort James Meridith to his classes and around at breaks
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Martin Luther King is arrested and jailed during anti- segregation protests in Birmingam.
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20,000 people march through the Lincolin memorial in the heart of the nations capital in support of de- segregation. In this important movement Martin Luther King delivers his famous "I have a dream" speech.
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The Civil Rights Act prohibits discrimination of all kinds based on race, color, religion, or national origin. The law also provides the federal government with the powers to enforce desegregation.
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Barrack Obama is sworn in as the first African American president of the Uited States of America
