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The sit in campaign resulted from students "sitting: at lunch counters until they were noticed and served food.
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The freedom rides is where blacks and whites volunteer next to each other on buses and other forms of public transportation.
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The Mississippi Riot is where they rallied against a federal courts decision to allow one black man to attend an all white school.
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Birmingham contained the efforts of Martin Luther King Jr. and citizens hoping for change took to ensure equality for all.
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The March On Washington was where both blacks and whites gathered together to witness Martin Luther King Jr. give his "I Have A Dream" speech.
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“I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality…. I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.”
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41 Freedom Summer schools opened in the churches, on the back porches and under the trees of Mississippi.
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The demonstration march was violent. Over 600 people partook in the march starting from Selma, Alabama and ending in Montgomery, Alabama.
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The Watts Riot was 6 days long and resulted in more than 40 million dollars of property damage. It was the largest and costliest urban rebellion of the civil rights era.
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“Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.”
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In the wake up MLk's death, the fate of his final cause, faced an uncertain future.
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated.
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The supreme court upheld busing as a legitimate which means achieving integration of public schools.
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Overriding President Reagan's veto, congress passed this act to expand the reach of non-discrimination laws within private institutions then receiving federal funds.
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He signed the act to strengthen existing civil rights laws and provide for damages in cases of intentional employment discrimination.
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The first race riots in decades erupted in South-Central Los Angeles after a jury acquits 4 white police officers for the videotaped beating of African American. Rodney King.
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Ruled that race can be one of many factors considered by colleges when selecting their students because it furthers "a compelling interest in obtaining the educational benefits that flow a diverse student body."
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Ringleader of the Mississippi civil rights murders, Edgar Ray Killen, is convicted of manslaughter on the 41st anniversary of the crimes
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Rosa Parks dies at age 92
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Coretta Scott King dies of a stroke at age 78
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The two confessed murderers, J. W. Milam and Roy Bryant, were dead of cancer by 1994, and prosecutors lacked sufficient evidence to pursue further convictions.
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James Bonard Fowler, a former state trooper, is indicted for murder of Jimmie Lee Jackson 40 years after Jackson's death. The 1965 killing lead to a series of historic civil rights protests in Selma, Ala.
