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Ruby Bridges and Civil Rights
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U.S. Supreme Court bans segregation in public schools.
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Ruby was born in Mississipi, four years later they move to New Orleans
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Rosa Parks, an African-American women, is arrested December 1 for refusing to give her seat to a white person. Bus boycott launched in Montgomery, Alabama.
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After more than a year of boycotting the buses and a legal fight, the Mont gomery buses desegregate.
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Federal court forced the desegregation of schools in the South.
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January Rubyhad her first day at Frantz Elementary School For Whites in New Orleans.
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Freedom rides begin from Washington, D.C: Groups of black and white people ride buses through the South to challenge segregation.
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Polilce arrest Civil Rights Leader Rev. Martin Luther King Jr and other ministers demonstrating in Birmingham, Alabama, then turn fire houses and police dogs on the marchers.
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President John F Kennedy calls for Civil Rights Act.
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President John F Kennedy 1961-1963, shot dead.
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Look magazine published Norman Rockwell´s painting The Problem We All Live With.
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President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
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Black Nationalis Leader Malcom X is murdered.
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Civil Rights Leader The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr is assassinated in Memphis, Tenesse, unleashing violence in more than 100 cities.
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The Story of Ruby Bridges was published.
