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In Topeka Kansas a class action suit was field against the board of education of the city. The Topeka boar of education operated the kansas law, Which permitted but did not require elementary school district to be seperated. The result was a land mark establishing seperate school from black and white to be unconstitutional.
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Rev George Lee killed for leading voter-registartion drive Belzoni Mississippi.
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Murderd for organizing black voters ( Brookhaven Misssissippi)
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Emmett Till was murdered brutely for speaking to a white women. ( Money Mississippi)
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Slain by nightriders opposed to school improvements. ( Mayflower Texas)
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When one day Rosa Parks sat quietly refusing to give up her seat for a white man. Rosa was than arrested and convicted of violated the law of segregation known as the (Jim Crow Laws).
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Montgomery bus boycott begins.
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Supreme court bans segregated seating on Montgomery buses.
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William Edwards JR. killed by Kiansmen Montgomery , Alabama.
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President Eisenhower passed the civil rights act of 1957 . The act ensured all African Amercain could excersise there right to vote.
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President Eisenhower orders federal troops to enforce school desgregation in Little Rock , Arkansas.
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Taken from jail and lynched .
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Black students stage sit- in at ''whites only'' lunch counter.
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A group of 13 African Amercains and white civil rights activist launched freedom rides, a series of of bus trips through the America South to protest segregation in interstate bus terminals.The Congress Of Racial Equality and Student Nonvioleting Coordinating Comitte helped organize the freedom riders The freedom riders were both black and whites,
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Voter registration worker killed by white legislator.
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Civil rights groups join forces to launch voter registration drive.
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Taken from bus and killed by police.
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Meredith decided to exercise his constitutional rights and apply to the UNiversity Of mississippi to enforce civil rights of African Amercains. As the mission to do so he was shot by a white many with numerous wounds. The govemernt got envoled by, calling out some 31,000 National Gaurdian and other federal forces to enforce order.
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French reporters killed during ole missippi.
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Birmingham police attack marching children with dogs ans fire hoses.
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Alabama Govenor George Wallace stands in schoolhouse door to stop university intergation.
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medgar evers was a African Amercain civil rights activist from mississippi. Evers civil rights leadership and investigation work made him a target of white supremacists
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This was a tool used to organize a mass march on washington D.C in which was designed to pressure the U.S goverment into desegreting the armed forces and providing fair working opportunites for Afrcian Americans. ''I Have a Dream'' was the famous public speech.
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Schoolgirls killed in bombing id sixteenth street baptist church.
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Youth killed during wave of racist violence.
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Outlawed in federal elections.
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Witness to murder of civil rights worker asassinated.
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The march to selma was organized for African Amercains to desire there constitutional right to vote ,in defense of segregationist repression. The marchers were attacked with billy clubs and tear gas. The outcome was, only (300 out of 15,000) got to registure to vote.
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Killed protesting construction of segregated shcool.
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killed by Klansmen.
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Civil rights workers abducted and slain by Klansmen.
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President Lyndon B. Johnson passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. This outlawd discrimination based on race , color , religion , sex or national orgin.
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Signs Civil Rights Act of 1964.
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Killed by Klansmen while driving north.
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Civil Rights marcher killed by state trooper.
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State troopers beat back marchers at Edmunt Pettus Bridge.
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March volunteer beaten to death.
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Thousands complete the Selma Mongomery votings right march.
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Killed by Klansmen while transporting marchers.
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Black deputy killed by nightriders.
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Congress passes Voting Rights Act of 1965.
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Killed by nightriders.
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Seminary students killed by deputy.
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Student civil rights activist killed in a dispute.
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Black community leader killed in Klan bombing.
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Killed by Klansmen.
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Civil rights leader killed after promotion to 'white' job.
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Civil rights worker killed when police tried on protesters.
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Student killed when highway patromen fire on protesters.
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A schedual event was planned during his assination. This assination of Dr. Martin Luther King affected the whites and blacks by , showing weather he was alive or dead there one day will be freedom just from how cruel his assination was.
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Govenor orval Faubus orderd the Arkansas National Gaurd to prevent African Amercain students from enrolling in central highschool. The govement protected the students by ordering troops to go in and protect the students.
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Marshall was a lawyer , a well known one for argueing against the supreme court before he was a justice. This was a monumental event when Marshall becsme a justice because, he was the first Africain Amercain named to U.S supreme court.