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Creation of the NAACP
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Scottsboro Boys
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Jackie Robinson Breaks the Color Barrier
This is the first African American to be in the white major leagues -
Brown vs. Board of Education
this was the court case to end school segregation in the country -
The Murder of Emmet Till
This event is what ignited the colored people to start protesting as his mother called him the sacrificial lamb. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Since Rosa parks had been arrested for not giving up her seat in the colored section of the bus for a white man they started walking everywhere for a little over a year -
Little Rock 9
they were the kids to desegregate white high schools so colored kids could get a better education -
Ruby Bridges desegregate elementary school in New Orleans
this little girl was going into a white school to desegregate schools for children in the elementary schools -
Letter from a Birmingham Jail
this was a letter to the clergyman that had betrayed Martin Luther King Jr. who also wrote the letter -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
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Assassination of Malcolm X
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Creation of the Black Panthers
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Thurgood Marshall Named Supreme Court Justice
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Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Election of Barack Obama
