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On this day the ruling on Brown v. Board of Education was made. This said that children of different races were not allowed to go to the same school.This established the "seperate but equal" laws.
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Emmet Till (fourteen at the time) was beaten up for supposedly whistling at a white woman. His face was utterly unrecognizable. The people that beat him to death were found innocent by an all-white jury.
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On this date Rosa parks refused to give up her seat on the bus to a white man. She was later arrested for this and became a figurehead for the civil rights movement.
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The nine black students meant to de-segregate Little Rock were blocked from entering the school by the governor.
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Four black college students hold a sit in at an establishment where blacks are not provided with servide. Though they weren't allowed to be served they were allowed to sit at the counter, and sit they did. This led to many other sit-ins in the South.
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MLK was arrested during an anti-segregation protest. While he was jailed he wrote "Letter from Birmingham Jail"
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Four young girls were killed by a bomb that detonated at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church
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Three civil rights activists went missing, soon after their car was found. Later their mangled bodies were found, they had been beaten to death.
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Civil-rights activists begin a march to Montgomery but are stopped by a police blockade. Fifty of the marchers were hospitalized and the police were beating people in the streets.
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The term "black power" was coined in a Seattle speech.
