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first black man to play for the MLB. Led the Dodgers to a world series title.
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Executive Order 9981, ending segregation in the United States military in signed into effect by President Harry S. Truman
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The start to the Korean war of 3 years.
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Declares that racial segregation in schools is unconstitutional.
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Emmett Till was kidnapped and killed in Mississippi while visiting his great uncle. This event sparked the Civil Rights Movement.
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Rosa Parks, an African American seamstress, refuses to give up her seat on the bus to a white man, prompting the boycott and NAACP protect that would lead to the declaration that bus segregation laws were unconstitutional by a federal court.
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One hundred and one congressmen from Southern states call for massive resistance to the Supreme Court ruling on desegregation
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A civil rights group, lead by Martin Luther King Junior.
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Play/Book based on the 50's