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National Association of the Advancement of Colored People is founded in New York.
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This movement fosters a new black cultural identity.
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Jackie Robindon braks Major League Baseball's color barrier when he is signed in to the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947
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Malcom X vecome leader of islam nation.
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The board of education declares that segregation in schools is unconstitutional.
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Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat at the front of the "colored section" on a bus which begins a succesfull year long bus boycott.
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James meridith is the firt black student at the University of Mississippi which causes riot.
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President Johnson signs civil rights act.
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Obama was the first black president.
