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our Black college students began a protest at a segregated lunch counter at a Woolworth restaurant -
young activists emerging from the early 1960s sit-in movement, with guidance from civil rights leader Ella Baker -
There were colored highways, bad bad bad. Both white and black people, got on buses to challenge these laws. -
Martin Luther was arrested 29 times -
John F Kennedy sent troops to force the deseregregation of the Univ of Alabama. -
A world war II veteran
NAACP first field secretary
Investigating murder of Emmett Till
Helped integrate Ole Miss
Shot hours after JFK delivered the landmark speech
Took 31 years to bring Evers' assassin to justice
His widow carried his legacy -
over 250,000 people to the Lincoln Memorial where Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech -
an explosion shattered the quiet of a Sunday morning, blowing apart the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama -
President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law -
Malcom X was assassinated by the members of the Nation of Islam -
In montgomery March around 600 civil rights marchers walk to Selma Alabama to Montgomery the states capital -
Martin Luther King leads the second March with the people who return for more, and they show up to the same town to march through again. -
the first African American to enroll at the University of Mississippi, began a solitary walk -
Huey Newton and Bobby Seale found Black Panthers -
Martin Assassinated and given a day