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Emmet Till, a boy from Chicago kidnapped and murdered while visiting family in Mississippi
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Very significant because it almost shut down major bus companies because of the lack of users for an entire year
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First black children to attend an all-white school in Little Rock, Arkansas. Broke educational segregation
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brought pride to younger generations to fight for civil rights and forced places like Woolworth's to change their segregation policies.
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Fought for the change of segregation in transportation and bus terminals.
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Most famous MLK speech with over 250,000 attendees, famous "I have a dream" speech.
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Ended segregation in public bathrooms, drinking fountains, restaurants, and other establishments that serve the public.
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Wanted to bring awareness of the violent oppression of Civil Rights and increase the amount of voter registration among black communities.
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This Act outlawed unfair voting practices like the literacy test and other practices brought in after the Civil War during reconstruction.
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Protest to allow voting for everyone, including black people. March from Selma, but got very violent at the end of the bridge leaving Selma.