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Brown vs. Board of Education Segregation in schools is unconstitutional
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Rosa Parks Bus Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat on the bus to a white male.
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SCLC The Southern Christian Leadership Conference is established and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is appointed the president of SCLC.
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Little Rock Nine Nine black students have to be escorted to their new integrated school due to hostile white protestors.
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http://americanhistory.si.edu/brown/history/6-legacy/freedom-struggle-2.html Four black males pose a sit-in at a lunch counter in Greensboro.
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James Meredith First black student to attend the Univerisity of Mississippi.
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Birmingham Protests Cops used brutal force against black protestors in Birmingham, Alabama. These protests were broadcasted on the news.
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I Have a Dream Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s historical "I Have a Dream" speech given at the Washington Monument.
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16th St. Church Bombing The 16th Street Baptist Church is bombed and four black girls are killed in the bombing.
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24th Amendment Poll taxes are removed from voting which gives African Americans better voting opportunities.
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Freedom Summer Efforts to get large amounts of African Americans registered to vote.
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Civil Rights Act of 1964
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Fair Housing ActThis act prohibits discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of housing.
