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Linda Brown who lives in Kansas has to travel by bus to a further a way african american school even though and lives in walking distance of an a white school.
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The Highlander Folks School in Tennasee organized protests for civil rights workers.
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The court decided that it is illegal to have segregation in schools and deemed it unconstitutional.
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Attended a workshop for civil rights organizers at the Highlander Old Folks School.
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A 14 year old african american boy was killed in Mississippi who was supposidly whistling at a white woman.
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Martin Luther King helped found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.The goal was to help fight for civil rights, He becomes nominated for president of the organization.
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The Supreme Court rules out a threat of mob violence is not enough reason to delay school desegregation.
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4 African American Men sit down at a whites only counter in a resturant located in greensboro. they were denied coffee and so they sat quietly for a whole day there.
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The supreme court rules that the university of Mississipi must admit African- Americn student and veteran James Meredith.
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The southern Christian Leadership Conference orgaized a series of protests to challenge segregation in Birmingham Alabama.
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Violence with police dogs and civil rights movenment pushed JFk to be more involved in the Civil RIghts movement after a 17 year old activist got attacked by police dogs.
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March on Washington was a organzied protest that was baised off of racial unrest and civil rights
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Malcolm X founds the Organization of Afro- American unity the point of this was unite African Americans from discrimintationn.
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Martin Luther King launches a voting rights campaign in Selma, Alabama, a city that only 355 of 15,000 black residents have managed to register to vote.
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The Voting Acts Rights took away the barriers that preveted African Americans from expressing thier right under the 15th amendment.
