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The original Plessy v. Ferguson case was when the court ruled seperate but equal facilities as okay. The whole issue was surfaced when a black woman was denied access to her town, Topeka's, public school. Court unanimously ruled in the womans favor and the courts decision put the governmant on equalities side
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Belzoni, Mississippi resident, Rev. George Lee killed for leading voter-registration drive
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Lamar Smith mudered for organizing black voters in Brookhaven, Mississippi
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Emmet Louis Till is murdered for so much as speaking to a white woman in Money, Mississippi
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Killed by night riders who didn't agree with school improvements in Mayflower, Texas
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Rosa Parks is arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white man on the bus. In response, the people of Montgomery, Alabama all boycott the Montgomery public bus system.
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Montgomery bus boycott is started
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Supreme court bans the segregated seating on buses in Montgomery
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Willie Edwards Jr. killed in Montgomery, Alabama by Klansmen
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Congress passes the first civil rights act since Reconstruction, giving more protection to the rights of black people and gave more voting rights.
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Little Rock's high school, Central High School, has selected nine black students to make the first steps towards desegregation & integration. But when the governor refused to allow the students t enter due to state troopers beng positioned at openings, president Eisenhower had to then in turn order federal troops to enforce the school desegregation.
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Taken from jail and then lynched in Poplarville, Mississippi
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Black students have a sit-in at Greensboro, North Carolina's "whites only" lunch counter
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Supreme court outlaws all segregation in bus terminals
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Freedom Riders would get on the segregated bus systems, sit down, and refuse to move or get off in protest of black seatings. The NAACP and MLK Jr. were huge supporters and organizers of them. The Freedom Riders were often black volunteers but white college students also joined in.
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In Liberty, Mississippi, Herbert Lee, a voter registration worker is killed by a white legislator
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Civil rights groups join forces to launch voter registration drive
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CPL. Roman Ducksworth Jr. is taken from his bus and killed by the police of Taylorsille, Mississippi
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French reporter killed during Ole Miss riots in Oxford, Mississippi
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When James Meredith enrolled at Ole Miss, riots errupted around campus at the sheer absurdity of such a thought. The governor absolutely refused to allow him to even apply and personally turned him away at the doors. It got to the pont where the government had to step in and force the University to accept him or else be shut down.
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Killed during a one-man march against segregation in Attalla, Alabama
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Birmingham police arrack children who were marching with fire hoses and dogs.
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Alabama Governor, George Wallace, stands in schoolhouse door to stop integration at the university
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Evers was a civil rights leader who was assassinated in Jackson, Mississppi. He was active in the rights movement and was threatened often after he gave a speech on local television. He was then killed only minutes after president Kennedy gave a speech of his own supporting the movement.
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Martin Luther King Jr. led this march, leading African-Americans to protest for their voting rights. The famous, "I Have a Dream" speech was given on this march
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Addie Mae Collins, Denise McNair, Carole Robertson and Cynthia Wesley are all killed in the bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama
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Birmingham, Alabama strikes again with the death of young Virgil Lamae Ware during a wave of racist violence
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Poll tax outlawed in federal elections
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Liberty, Mississippian, Louis Allen, a witness to a murder of a civil rights worker is assassinated
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Killed while protesting the construction of a segregated school in Cleveland, Ohio
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Henry Hezekiah Dee & Charles Eddie Moore are killed by Klansmen in Meadville, Mississippi
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1,000 young civil rights volunteers are brought by Freedom Summer to Mississippi
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In Philadelphia, Mississippi, James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, civil rights workers, are adbucted and killed by Klansmen
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President Johnson passed this act after the passing of Kennedy in a final movement to protect the voting rights of African Americans,
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Killed by Klansmen while driving through Colbert, Georigia
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The civil rights marcher was killed by a state trooper in Marion, Alabama
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The march to Selma was organized to stop the severe racism in Selma, Alabama. But the peaceful marchers were met with state troopers where men were brutally beaten. In turn, the world was shown that even though black people were promoting nonviolent protests, white people were the violent accusers.
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March volunteer was beaten to death iin Selma, Alabama
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Thousands complete the Selma to Montgomery votinh rights march
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Killed by Klansmen while transporting marchers on the Selma Highway in Alabama
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A Varnado, Louisiana black deputy is killed by nightriders.
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Congress passes Voting Rights Act of 1965
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Anniston, Alabama resident, Willie Brewster is killed by nightriders
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Seminary student killed by deputy in Hayneville, Alabama
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Student civil rights activist killed in dispute in Tuskegee, Alabama
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Klan bombing in Hattiesburg, Mississippi kills a black community leader
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Man killed by Klansmen in Natchez, Mississippi
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Slain by nightriders in Bogolusa, Louisiana
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Natchez, Mississippian civil rights leader killed for getting a promotion to a "white job"
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Civil rights worker killed when police fired on protesters in Jackson, Mississippi
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Before Marshall became a Justice, he was a big role player in the NAACP. This was also a huge game changer for the black community because having an African American on the Supreme Court was kind of a final step in the governments acception of them.
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Samuel Hammond Jr, Delano Middleton, and Henry Smith are killed when highway patrolmen fire on protesters in Orangeburg, South Carolina
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Martin Luther King Jr. was standing on the balcony of his hotel in Memphis, Tennessee and he was shot. The death of this great leader was a turning point for both races. He was a huge factor of the movement of the civil rights and losing him was like a final battle blow before the world moved on with their acceptance.
