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Desegregates military
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Ends Segregation in Public Schools. Overturned Plessy v Ferguson.
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Leads to Montgomery bus boycott
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Court ruled black students wew allowed to go to Little Rock Central High School.
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Four students from North Carolina A&T university.
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Fight to end segregation in interstate travel.
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"I have a dream speech."
Led to passage of Civil Rights Act -
LBJ signs Civil Rights Act ending segregation in public places.
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LBJ signs Voting Rights Act ending literacy test
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Thurgood Marshal, first African American Supreme Court Justice. Appointed by LBJ 1967
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MLK Assassinated on a balcony in Memphis, Tennessee.
James Earl Ray pled guilty to avoid the death penalty by electrocution.
