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Civil rights timeline
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Rosa Parks arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a public bus
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Montgomery bus boycott
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Governor Farbus of Arkansas brings in National Guard to prevent black students from going into a white school
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Sit in at Woolworth's lunch counter
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Freedom riders bus burned
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The Other America written by Michael Harrington
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Peaceful demonstrators ruthlessly attacked in Birmingham, Alabama- MLK arrested
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MLK writes Letter from a Birmingham jail- while locked up
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March on Washington
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"I have a dream" speech given by Martin Luther King
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John F. Kennedy assasinated
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Lyndon B. Johnson becomes President
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24th amendment passed
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Civil Rights bill passed
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Voting rights act 1965
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Malcom x dies
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watts riots
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Martin Luther King Jr. assasinated
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forced bussing