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Segregation in public schools was unconstitutional and violated the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment
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NAACP member Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat at the front of the "colored section" of a bus to a white passenger, defying a southern custom of the time.
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Boycotting the transportation system until the Supreme Court declared segregation on buses was unconstitutional
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Divided Vietnam along the 17th parallel. North= Communist, South= Democracy
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Eisenhower had to send in troops to Little Rock to surround the Arkansas National Guard in front of school so the Guards would surrender and allow the 9 African Americans to register at the school.
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4 Amfrican Americans were refused service which started a non-violent battle to finally get service and soon after formed the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.
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Authorized All necessary measures to repel anty armed attack against the forces of the United States and to prevent further aggression.
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Malcolm X, black nationalist and founder of the Organization of Afro-American Unity, is shot to death.
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Congress passes the Voting Rights Act of 1965, making it easier for Southern blacks to register to vote. Literacy tests, poll taxes, and other such requirements that were used to restrict black voting are made illegal.
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In Loving v. Virginia, the Supreme Court rules that prohibiting interracial marriage is unconstitutional. Sixteen states that still banned interracial marriage at the time are forced to revise their laws.
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Vietcong attack most airbases in South Vietnam and blasted their way into the American Embassy in Saigon
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Martin Luther King, at age 39, is shot as he stands on the balcony outside his hotel room.
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The Supreme Court, in Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education, upholds busing as a legitimate means for achieving integration of public schools.
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