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Alabama offically becomes a part of the United States of America
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Arrest of Rosa Parks for refusing to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus to a white passenger. Which helped spark the Civil Rights Movement
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•In 1965, five months before President Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act prohibiting discriminatory voting practices, thousands of non-violent protesters joined a 54-mile march from Selma to Montgomery to bring attention to the injustice African Americans faced when attempting to register to vote.
