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1.Plessy v. Ferguson
2.The ruling seperate but equal was seen and it was'nt accepted
3.Supreme court outlaws school segregation in Brown v. Board of Education -
George Lee killed for leading voter registration line in Missisippi
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Lamar Smith murdered for organizing black voters in Missisippi
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Emmett Till killed for speaking to a white woman in Missisippi
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John Earl Reese slain by nightriders opposed to school improvements
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1.Rosa Parks arrested after refusing to give up bus seat
2.She was soon after arrested and it gave the Civil Rights Movement something to argue about -
The Montgomery Bus Boycott begins
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The Supreme Court bans segregated seats on Montgomery busses
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Willie Edwards killed by Klansmen in Alabama
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1.President Eisenhower signed it into effect
2.It stated that all Americans should vote including blacks. -
1.Nine African American students enrolled in a white school and riots erupted
2.The government sent federal troops to protect them. -
Mack Charles Parker was taken from a jail and lynched in Missisippi
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Black students stage a Sit-in at a ''whites only'' lunch counter in North Carolina.
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Supreme Court outlaws segregation in the bus terminals
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1.They were civil rights activists who rode buses to stop unconstitutional bus laws.
2.The congress of racial equality(CORE) supported the Riders the most
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Voter registration leader killed by white legislator in Mississippi
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Civil rights groups join forces to launcha very large voter registration drive
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Taken off a bus and killed by police in Mississippi
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1.Riots erupted across the city and campus.
2.Kennedy sent 500 U.S. Marshalls to escort James to Ole Miss -
Paul Guihard French reporter killed in the Ole Miss university riots
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William Lewis Moore slain during one-man march against segregation in Alabama
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Birmingham police attack marching children with dogs and fire hoses.
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Alabama governer George Wallace stands in a schoolhouse door to stop school segregation
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1.A civil rights activist in Mississippi
2.Medgar got out of his car and was shot in the back, he was denied entry to the hospital based solely on his race. -
1.Martin Luther King led 250,000 to march on the Mall in Washington D.C
2.The "I have a dream" speech -
Four schoolgirls killed in a church bombing in Alabama, they were targeted becuase they were African American
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Virgil Lamar Ware killed in a wave of racist violence in Alabama
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Poll Tax outlawed in federal elections
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Witness to a civil rights leader's assassination in Mississippi
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Rev. Bruce Klunder killed during protests of segregated schooling in Ohio
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Killed by klansmen in Mississippi
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Freedom Summer brings 1,000 young civil rights leaders in Mississippi
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Three leaders kidnapped and killed by klansmen in Mississippi
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1.Lyndon Johnson
2.Abolished descrimination based on race or color -
Lt. Col. Lemuel Penn killed by klansmen in Georgia
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Jimmie Lee Jackson killed by state trooper in Alabama.
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State troopers beat back marchers on a bridge in Alabama
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Marcher beaten to death in Selma, Alabama
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1.To protest the inhumane things and killings happening in Alabama.
2.State troopers and klansmen
3.People were moved and it gave new power to civil rights race -
Viola Liuzzo killed by klansmen while marching
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Killed by nightriders in Louisiana
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Congress passed this act
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killed by nightriders in Alabama
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Killed by deputy in Alabama
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Activist killed in Alabama
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Killed in bombing in Mississippi
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Black Community leader killed in Mississippi
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Killed after promotion in Mississippi
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Killed by police in Mississippi
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1.He was involved in the civil rights act
2.It broke the barrier for african americans in the government -
Students killed by patrol officers in South Carolina
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1.He was in Memphis for a speech and was shot on his balcony to a hotel.
2.They realized something had to be done... and it had to be done soon.
