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Brown vs. Board of Education was one of the first major landmarks in the civil rights movement. It showed that separate but equal was not possible and outlawed segregation of public schools.
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Rosa Parks is arrested for not giving up her seat to a white person on a bus. This sparks outrage and showed the hypocrisy of the South.
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People Boycott the Montgomery Buses. This works to make it so the city loses out on lots of money and also shows that the buses are segregated even though their main occupants are African Americans. This continues for a long time.
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This was the first group of African Americans to go to a white only school. They faced many challenges and had to be protected at all times.
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African Americans would sit in diners to prevent white people from sitting in them or from ordering.
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This was a group of people that used busses in the south to protest by using as many of the white only facilities that they could.
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John F Kennedy is killed from a building whilst out on a parade.
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People go to Birmingham to protest inequality because it is known for its racism and cruelty towards African Americans.
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This is a march that has 20,000 people partaking in it and is also where MLK gives his "I have a dream" speech.
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Prohibits racial discrimination in voting.
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Major Campaign in Atlantic City.
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Protests met with violence from whites. Very large groups of people attacked brutally.
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Martin Luther King is assassinated whilst protesting in Memphis on his hotel balcony.