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The founding of National Association for the Advancement of coloured people (NAACP)
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In the first national demonstration the Ku Klux Klan marches on Washington D.C
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President Truman issues an executive order outlawing segregation in the US military
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The Supreme Court declares school segregation unconstitutional in its ruling on Brown v Brown of Educational of Topeka, Kansas
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Rosa Parkes is jailed for refusing to move to the back of Montgomery, Alabama Bus boycott follows and the Bus segregation ordinance is declared unconstitutional.
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Freedom Rides begin from Washington DC into Southern states. Student volunteers are bused into test laws prohibiting segregation.
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President Kennedy sounds federal troops to the University of Mississippi to end riots so that James Meredith, the schools first black student can attend
