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Rosa parks were riding the bus one day and refused to give up her seat for a white person causing her to get arrested and set a lot of things in motion for the civil rights movement.
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Was a public campaign against segregation on public transportation costing the bus companies large amounts of money because they refused to ride.
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A group of nine African American high schoolers enrolled in little rock highschool after the integration. they were met with protest and mobbed outside the school.
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The supreme court case that ruled discrimination in public schools as unconstitutional.
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when a group of people would stay in an area in protest.
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Groups of people would ride the busses in the south to ensure the law of no discrimination was being upheld in the south.
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movement organized in early 1963 by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to bring attention to the integration efforts of African Americans in Birmingham, Alabama
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protest against racial segregation and show support for the pending civil rights legislation in Congress.
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Was assassinated while riding in Presidential motorcade through Dealey Plaza.
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prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin.
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A campaign to attempt to register as many black voters in Mississippi as possible.
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Marches protesting the voting rights of African Americans.
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Outlawed tactics were used to stop blacks from voting such as the literacy test, and poll taxes.
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Martin Luther King was shot dead while standing on a balcony outside his second-floor room at the Lorraine Motel by James Earl Ray in Memphis