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7 Black men accused of raping a white woman. Sentenced to death by all white all male suries. There had been no death sentence for rape by a white man.
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This was the first challenged to the segregated secratary system.
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The supreme court rules that segregation in public school was unconstutional and that was the start of desegregation.
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Rosa parks refused to get up from her seat for a white man on a bus.
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9 black students are blocked from entering an all white school.
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Martin luther king is put in jail during anti-segregation protest in birmingham. Wrote letter from brimingham jail.
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200,000 people join the march of washington were they listen to his I have a dream speech.
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4 young girls are killed by a bomb thrown into 16th street baptist church.
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President Johnson signs the civil right act of 1964. Prohibits discrimination of all kinds based of race, color, religion. Also gives federal goverment the powers to enforce desegragation.
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Malcom X was shot to death.
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congress passed a voting right act of 1965 making it easier for southern blacks to vote
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Martin Luther King shot as he stands on the balcony outside his hotel room.
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4 students sat woolworth lunch counter and sat there until they were served.
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James Meredith becomes the first black student to enroll at the university if mississippi.
