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The supreme court ruled that racial discrimination in schools was going against the constitution. -
Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on the bus for a white man, she was then arrested and this started a boycott. -
The first 9 African American students attended their first day at little rock high school, they were met with mobs and guards blocking them off from entering the building. They returned to school on Sept. 23 and were again blocked out. They then came back on the 25th guarded by troops. -
Ruby Bridges who was only 6 at the time was taken to her first day at a previously all white school. -
Seven African Americans and six whites got on buses headed to New Orleans, they were a group based off of anti-segregation. They used the opposite race assigned bathrooms at bus stops, and were met with violence and eventually brutally beaten up. Their buses were set fire to. -
A crowd of around 250,000 gathered to march for equal treatment in the world of employment, Martin Luther King Jr. addressed the crowd with his "I Have a Dream" speech -
The Civil Rights Act was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson -
Very prominent African American leader and activist Malcom X was assassinated while giving a lecture. -
This was a series of violent confrontations the city police and residents of the Watts neighborhood, as well as many other mainly African American neighborhoods -
An ongoing series of violent interactions between mainly African American neighborhoods and city police began with an illegal drinking club being raided and everyone inside being arrested.