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Jacky Robinson becomes the first black in the Major Leagues
This marks the beginning of the lowering of the color barrier -
The armed forces are integrated
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Brown vs. Board of Education decides that segregation has no place in the school system
This is a monumental victory for the Civil Rights Movement -
Rosa Parks is arrested because she refused to give up her seat to a white
She becomes a symbol of the Civil Rights Movement because of this -
The Supreme Court rules that bus segregation is illegal
This was due to the success of the bus boycott -
Nine blacks attend a white school in Little Rock
Attempts are made to stop them from attending, and this is the first time that the federal and state governments clashed over this issue. -
First sit-in takes place
This method of protest becomes very common -
Thirteen freedom riders successfully integrate the buses before being attacked in Alabama
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Federal court orders University of Mississippi to accept a black student
When he arrived on campus, a riot ensued in which two were killed -
SCLC starts demonstrations in Birmingham
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March on Washington takes place
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Civil Rights Act of 1964 is passed
This prevented many forms of dicrimination -
An effort is made to register blacks to vote in Mississippi
One thousand people showed up, and later three were found killed. -
Malcolm X is killed
This happened shortly after he renounced his beliefs and said that blacks and whites should coexist peacefully. One of his former supporters shot him -
Martin Luther King Junior starts protests in Alabama for voting rights
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Violence explodes in North
This especially took place in Watts -
Voting Rights Act of 1965 is passed
This banned common practices that were being used to prevent African Americans from voting -
Edward Brooke becomes the first black senator since reconstruction
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Thurgood Marshall is appointed to the Supreme Court
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Martin Luther King Junior is killed