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Brown v. Board of Education took a step forward in desegregating America by ruling segregation in schools unconstitutional
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Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama bus. she was arrested for doing so which enraged civil rights leader
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Nine high school students from Little Rock, Arkansas, are blocked from integrating into Little Rock Central High school. they are escorted by federal troops sent by President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
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all throughout 1961, a group of black and white activists who took bus trips through the South to protest segregated bus terminals and attempted to use white only spaces
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250,000 people were in Washington for the march on Washington. there, Martin Luther King Jr gave his famous " I have a dream" speech.
