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Ended racial segregation in public Schools, however, many school remained segregated. -
A 14 year old boy was brutally murdered for allegedly flirting with a white woman. The case brought international attention to the civil rights movement after Jet Magazine posted a photo of his beaten body. -
Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama.This action started a year-long Montgomery bus boycott. -
Nine black students are blocked from integrating into Little Rock High School. President Eisenhower sent federal troop to escort them, but they still continued to get harrassed. -
Four black college students in Greensboro refuse to leave a Woolworth's "whites only" lunch counter. -
Black and white activists took bus trips through the American South to protest segregated buses and tried to use white only bathrooms and lunch counters. -
Around 250,000 people take the "March on Washington" for Jobs and Freedom. Martin Luther King Jr gave his "I have a dream" speech. -
A bomb at 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama kills four young girls and injures several other people. The bombing fuels angry protests. -
President Lyndon Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law, whichprevents employment discrimination due to race, color, sex, religion or national origin. -
Arounf 600 civil rights marchers walk to Selma, in protest of black voter suppression. Local police blocked and brutally attack them. -
President Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to prevent the use of literacy tests as a voting requirement. -
A case in which the Court held that the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits governments from discriminating against individuals on the basic of race.