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The court case that allowed seperate but equal facilities was the Plessy V.S. Ferguson case. It helped break the segregatio and provid a spark to the American civil rights movement. The resuly of the case was passed a year later.
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He was killed for leading voter-registration drive. In Belzoni, Mississippi.
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Murdered for organizing black voters. In Brookhaven, Mississippi.
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He was murdered for speaking to a white woman. In Money, Mississippi.
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Slain by night riders. He opposed to school improvements. In Mayflower, Texas.
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Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man. A white man had no seat because all the seats for the "white" people were filled. The bus driver had asked the four "colored" people in the first row of the color section to stand. Rosa was one of the four that was asked to stand, the other three "colored" people stood but Rosa kept sitting there. After awhile, two police officers came on the bus and arrested Rosa.
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Montgomery bus boycott begins. The boycott lasted more than a year.
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He was killed by klansmen in Montgomery, Alabama.
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Congress passes the first Civil Rights Act since reconstruction. Dwight D. Eisenhower signed it into law. The law stated that all African Americans could exercise their right to vote. It empowered federal prosecutors to obtain court injunctions against interference with the right to vote.
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Taken from jail and lynched in Poplarville, Mississippi.
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Black students staged a sit in at "whites only" lunch counter in Greereboro, North Carolina.
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Supreme Court outlaws segregation in bus terminals.
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Freedom riders attacked in Alabama while testing compliance with bus desegregation laws. What they did is do a series of bus trips through the American south to protest segregation in interstate bus terminals. The organization CORE ( congress of racial equality) helped organize freedom riders. The freedom riders had a groups of 13 African Americans and white civil rights activists.
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Voter registration worker killed by white legislator. In Liberty, Mississippi.
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Civil rights groups join forces to launch voter registration drive.
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He was taken from a bus and killed by police officers. In Tayforsville, Mississippi.
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Riots erupt when James Meredith, a black student enrolled at Ole Miss. Riots broke out, resulting in two people dead and hundreds wounded and others arrested. Kennedy called out 31,000 National Guardsmen and other federal forces to enforce order.
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A french reporter killed during Ole Miss riot. In Oxford, Mississippi.
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He was slain during the one- man march against segregation. In Attila, Alabama.
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Birmingham police attack marching children with dogs and fire hoses.
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Alabama Governor George Wallace stands in schoolhouse door to stop university integration.
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Civil rights leader who was assassinated. In the driveway outside his own house he was shot to death by Bryon De La Beckwith. In Jackson, Mississippi.
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250,000 Americans marched on Washington for civil rights. The famous speech that was delivered when everyone met in Washington was Martin Luther King Jr.'s " I have a dream " speech.
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Four schoolgirls killed in bombing of Sixteenth Street Baptist Church. In Birmingham, Alabama.
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Youth killed during wave of racist violence. In Birmingham, Alabama.
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Roll tax was outlawed in federal elections.
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Was a witness to murder of civil rights worker that was assassinated.
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Killed protesting construction of segregated schools. In Cleveland ,Ohio.
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Killed by Klansrren. In Meadville, Mississippi
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Freedom summer brings 1,000 young civil rights volenteers to MIssissippi
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Civil rights workers abducted and slain by Klansmen. In Philadephia, Mississippi.
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President Johnson signs Civil Rights Act of 1964. This law prohibited discrimination in public, made employment discrimination illigeal, and it provided combinging of different raced schools and othere public facilities.
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Killed by Klansmen while driving north in Colbert, Georgia.
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Civil rights marcher killed by state trooper. In Marion, Alabama.
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State troopers beat back marchers at Edmund Pettus Bridge. In Selma, Alabama. The march was organized because black people in the south were not allowed to vote. Even though in 1964 the government had passed a law that said no discrimination for voting. The ressistance they faced was the police trying to get them to stop walking. In the end it took three days but the people finally made it to Montgomery. A Voting Rights Act was passed later that year.
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James was a march volunteer who was beaten to death in Selma, Alabama
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Thousands of people complete the Selma to Montgomery voting rights march.
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She was killed by the Klansmen while transporting marchers. On Selma highway, Alabama.
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He was a black deputy killed by nightriders. In Varnando, Louisianna.
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Voting Rights Act was passed by congress.
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He was killed by nightriders in Anniston, Alabama.
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A seminary student killed by a debuty. In Hayneville, Alabama.
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President Eisenhower orders federal troops to enforce school desegregation in Little a Rock, Arkansas. Nine black students came to school with kids screaming " Go back to where you came from. " and shouting racial epithets. Some people had threatened to lynch the black kids. The principle wouldn't let the kids into the school. Eisenhower had ordered armed federal troops to the south to ensure that the civil rights of blacks were protected.
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Supreme Court bans segregated seating on Montgomery buses.
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A student Civil RIghts activist killed in dispute. In Tuskegee, Alabama.
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A black community leader killed in Klan bombing. In Mattiesburg, Mississippi.
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He was killed by Klansmen. In Natchez, Mississippi.
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Clarence was slain by nightriders in Bognlusa, Louisiana.
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He was a Civil rights leader killed after promotion to 'white' job. In Natchez, Mississippi.
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He was a civil rights worker killed when police fired on protesters. In Jackson, Mississippi.
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Thurgood Marshall was sworn in as first black Supreme Court Justice. He had started his own law practice, defending clients against pre-war British creditors before becoming a justice. Him becoming a justice was probably monumental because not many blacks could get as far as he did.
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These three guys were students that were killed by Klansmen in Natchez, Mississippi.
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Riots broke out in cities all across the U.S. and about a mile from MLK's motel was james Ray's sniper. James Earl Ray is the one who killed him. His death had such a big impact on people because he was the one person who stood up foor African Americans and said that they had as much right to be equal as the whites. It was called his " I had a dream speech."
