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President Harry Truman issues executive order 9981 to end segregation in the armed services
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Brown v board of education decided by supreme court ending racial segregation
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Rosa parks started the buss boycott after refusing to give up her seat on the bus in the colored section in Montgomery Alabama
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Martin Luther King Jr coordinated a nonviolent protest against racial segregation
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Little rock nine went to central high school but because of racial prohibition president Dwight Eisenhower sends federal troops to escort them to class
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Eisenhower Sigs civil rights act of 1957into law
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4 college students from north Carolina refuse to leave white lunch counter for non violent sit ins
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George G Wallace blocks 2 blacks from entering university of Alabama so John F Kennedy sends national guard to campus
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250,000 march on Washington for jobs and freedom
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A bomb at 16th street church in Bringham kills 4 girls witch led to an angry protest
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Lyndon B Johnson signs civil rights act of 1964 preventing employment discrimination (race, color, sex, religion)
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Malcom X is assassinated during rally
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Salem to Montgomery march 600 civil rights black voters suppression
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Johnson signs voting rights act of 1965 to prevent literacy tests for voting
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Martin Luther is assassinated in Memphis Tennessee James Eral is convicted
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Fair housing act providing equal housing opportunities
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Fixed racial quotes are illegal
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Grutter v Bollinger race into account for admission
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Voting rights act required approval before changing voting laws
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Justice department opens up civil rights investigation
