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In the case of Brown v. Board of Education, the Supreme Court rules segregation in public schools is unconstitutional.
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Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat for a white man and she was arrested for this action shortly after.
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The governor of Arkansas blocks nine black students from entering an all white school.
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Four black college students stage a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter.
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Over 200,000 people join in the march on Washington
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The ringleader of the 1964 homicide of two whites and one black civil rights workers, Edgar Killen, was is finally convicted of manslaughter.
