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U.S. Supreme Court bans segregationin public schools.
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Ruby was born in Mississippi, four years later they move to New Orleans.
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Rosa Parks, an African-American woman, is arrrested December 1 for refusing to give up 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 Montgomery buses desegregate.
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January Ruby had 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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Police arrest Civil Rights Leader Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and other ministers demonstrating in Birmingham, Alabama, then turn fire hoses 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 by a white person.
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Look magazine published Norman Rockwell's painting The Probem We All Live With.
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President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
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Black Nationalist Leader Malcom X is murdered.
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Civil Rights Leader the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. is assasinated in Memphis, Tennessee, unleashing violence in more than 100 cities.
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The Story of Ruby Bridges was published.
