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President Harry Truman ordered the integration of all units of the armed forces.
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Rosa Parks refused to move from the first row of the colored section of the bus to make room for more white people when it started filling up. The driver had her arrested. African Americans then boycotted the busses.
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Four African American college students sat at a “whites only” counter and ordered coffee. They refused to move unless they were served.
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Thousands of African Americans, including many children, marched through Birmingham to protest discrimination.
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Civil rights leaders proposed a march on the nation’s capitol to focus attention on the strongest civil rights bill in the nation’s history.
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Banned discrimination in public facilities and outlawed discrimination in employment. Also provided faster school desegregation and further protected voting rights.
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Malcom X told African Americans to separate completely from white society. Later, he rejected seperatism, but before he could develop these new ideas, he was shot to death.
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Angered by what they saw as police brutality, residents of Watts burnt cars and looted stores.
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Banned literacy tests and other barriers to African American voting.
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Hundreds of marchers set out from the city of Selma to Montgomery to demand voting rights.