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segregation in facilities was due to the plessy v. ferguson case. the segregation in school brought the Brown v. Board case to court ending in segregation in schools being unconstitutional.
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Rev. George Lee killed for leading voter-registration drive. Beizoni, Mississippi
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Lamar Smith murdered for organizing black voters. Brookhaven, Mississippi
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Emmet Louis Till murdered for speaking to a white woman. Money, Mississippi
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John Earl Reese slain by nightriders opposed to school improvements. Mayflower, Texas
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Rosa parks refused to give up her seat for a white men and gets arrested. ain the end it leads to a boycot of montgomery buses.
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Montgomery bus boycott begins.
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Supreme court bans segregated seating on Montgomery buses. Montgomery, Alabama
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Willie Edwards Jr. killed by Klansmen. Montgomery, Alabama
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the act was passed by president eisenhower. it stated that all blacks have the right to excersize their right to vote
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Mack CHarles Parker taken from jail and lynched. Poplarville, Mississippi
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Black students stage sit-in at 'whites only' lunch counter. Greensbero, North Carolina
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Supreme court outlaws segregation in bus terminals
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freedom riders attacked alabama though both whites and blacks joined. also testing compliances within bus desegregation laws.
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Herbert Lee voter registration worker killed by white legislator. Liberty, Mississippi
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Civil rights groups join forces to launch voter registration drive
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Cpl. Roman Ducksworth Jr. taken from bus and killed by police. Taylorsville, Mississippi
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President Eisenhower sent in troops to help the enforce school desegregation even though troops blocked the students from getting in.
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Paul Guimard french reporter killed during Ole Misa riot. Oxford, Mississippi
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As James Meredith tries o enrolls at Ole Miss riots break out causing Kennedy to send in 31,000 tropps to enforce rule.
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William Lewis Moore slain during one-man march against segregation. Alabama
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Birmingham police attack marching children with dogs and tire horses.
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Alabama governer George Wallace stands in schoolhouse door to stop university integration.
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Medgar Evers was killed by a white supremacist soon after joining the NAACP
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The march on Washington lead to jobs and freedom in thr nations capitol. Once everybody arrived at washington the "I have a dream" speech was given.
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Addie Mae Collins, Denise Mcnair, Carole Robertson, Cynthia Wesley. Schoolgirls killed in bombing of sixteen street baptist church. Birmingham, Alabama.
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Virgil Lamar Ware youth killed during wave or racist violence. Birmingham, Alabama
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Poll tax outlawed in federal elections
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Louis Allen. Witness to murder of civil rights worker assassinated. Liberty, Mississippi.
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The Rev. Bruce Klunder killed protesting construction of segregated school. Cleveland, Ohio
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Henery Hezekiah Dee and Charles Eddie Moore killed by klansmen. Meadville, Mississippi
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Freedom summer brings 1,000 young civil rights volunteers to Mississippi
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James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner. civil rughts workers abducted and slain by klansmen. Philadelphia, Mississippi
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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed by Lyndon Johnson and it stated that segregation would be ended in public places
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LT. Col. Lemuel Penn killed by klansmen while driving north. Colbert, Georgia
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Jimmie Lee Jackson civil rights marcher killed by state trooper. Marion, Alabama
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state troopers beat back marchers at edmund pettus bridge. Selma, Alabama
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Finding a way to help voting rights they started the march to Selma. many riots broke out as he states tried to stop them.
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thousands complete the selma to montgomery voting rights march
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Viola Gregg Liuzzo killed by klansmen while transporting marchers. Selma highway, Alabama
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Oneal Moore black deputy killed by nightriders. Varnado, Louisiana
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Congress passes voting rights act of 1965
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Willie Brewster killed by nightriders. Anniston, Alabama.
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Jonathan Daniels seminary student killed by deputy. Hayneville, Alabama
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Samuel Younge Jr. student civil rights activist killed in dispute. Tuskegee, Alabama
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Vernon Dahmer black community leader killed in klann bombing, Hattiesbrag, Mississippi
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Ben Chester White killed by klansmen. Natchez, Mississippi
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Clarence Triggs slain by nightriders. Louisiana
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Wharlest Jackson civil rights leader killed after promotion to 'white' job. Natchez, Mississippi
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Benjamin Brown civil rights worker killed when police tired on protesters. Jackson, Mississippi
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Thurgood MArshall was a lawyer before he was a justice. Him becoming the justice showed people and their veiws were changing.
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Samuel Hammond Jr., Deland Middleton, Henry Smith students killed when highway patrolmen fire on protestors. Orangeburg, South Carolina
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MLK Jr. was killed during a parade and died in the hospital shortly after being shot THis brought our nation together to morne.