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Desegregation of the military
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Ends segregation in public schools. Helped to end Jim Crow laws.
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Civil Rights Movement begins
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Eisenhower sends troops hesitantly to intergrate public schools.
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Four students had a sit-in at a segregated cafe as a form of public disobedience
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Whites and blacks road a bus together to fight segregation on interstate travel and the bus was bombed by the KKK.
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Also known as the "Million Man March" where Martin Luther KIng Jr. said his I have a dream speech.
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LBJ signs this act which ended segregation in public places.
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LBJ signs this act which ended the literacy test.
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First African American Supreme Court Justice appointed LBJ
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Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated by James Earl Ray
