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Rosa Parks was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama, on December 1, 1955, for refusing to give up her seat on a city bus to a white man.
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President Eisenhower sends the National Guard to Little Rock's Central High School to protect nine black students as they desegregate the school
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Students across the country organize sit-ins to protest the segregation in restaurants.
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Volunteers travel around the South by bus in attempt to desegregate bus terminals
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James Meredith became the first black student to enroll at the University of Mississippi. Violence and riots surrounding the incident cause the President to send in federal troops.
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protesters march on Birmingham, Alabama in 1963
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Nearly 200,000 peoplle march on Washington ,D.C.
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Martin Luther King Jr. gives his " I Have a Dream " speech
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John F. Kennedy is killed during a parade in Dallas,Texas, for being a supporter of the civil rights movement.
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Martin Luther King Jr. is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his work in the Civil Rights movement.
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The voting rights act of 1965 was passed in 1965 to make it easier for African-Americans citizens to vote. In some parts of the United States, people were forced to pay a poll tax or take a literacy test before being allowed to vote which kept many African-Americans from voting (The Voting Rights Act made all of those practices illegal).
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Martin Luther King Jr. is shot at his motel in Memphis, Tnn , and dies
