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The supreme court rules that the school segregation is unconstitutional, overruling plessy v. ferguson, the case that established the " separate but equal".
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Blacks Boycott Montgomery Ala. public bus system for a year after Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat.
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Emmett Till, a black teenager is found dead after flirting with a white women. evidence points to two white men, but they are acquitted by an all-white jury.
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President Eisenhower sends the national guard to little rocks central high school to protect nine black students as they desegregate the school.
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Students Across the country stage sit-ins to protest the segregation in restaurants.
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Volunteers travel around the south by bus in an attempt to desegregate bus terminals.
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Nearly 200,000 people march on Washington, D.C MLK gives " i have a dream speech"
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protesters march on birmingham, ala MLK is jailed and writes his "letter from birmingham jail"
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Kennedy a supporter of the civil rights movement, is killed during a parade in Dallas.
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MLK is awarded the nobel peace prize for his work in the civil rights movement
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legislation signed by president johnson prohibits discrimination in all public places.
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Malcolm X black nationalist and a previous leader of the nation islam, is assassinated in New York
