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A Voting Rights Act was passed which in theory made it illegal for anyone to restrict the right of anybody to vote.
people cannot telling anyone that they cant vote -
The Supreme Court declared segregation on buses that crossed state borders was illegal.
Segregation is now illegal -
This was the first year since 1881 without a lynching.
1952 it was the first year that no one got lynched. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott began after the arrest of Rosa Parks.
There was a boycott -
Martin Luther king jr became President of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
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NAACP leader – Medgar Evers – was assassinated.
he was killed by a white man -
Riots in Harlem
1 died 118 injured 465 arrested -
Dr. Martin Luther King was awarded the Noble Peace Prize.
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Malcolm X was assassinated.
Malcolm died -
Martin Luther King was assassinated. The man convicted of his murder – James Earl Ray – was sentenced to 99 years prison but he denied having anything to do with the murder.
Martin Luther king JR died -
the new right 1970