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Brown vs board of education
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Emmet Till is beaton and shot to death after being kidnapped and dumped in a river
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Montgomery Bus Boycott begins
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Montgomery Bus Boycott ends
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Martin Luther King, Charles Steele, and Fred Shuttlesworth found the SCLC
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the integration of Little Rock High School
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James Meredith enrolls at the Universtiy of Mississippi causing violent riots
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Martin Luther Kng is arrested and put into the Birmingham jail where he writes his letter from Birmingham Jail
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200,000 people take part in the March on washington, in which Martin Luther King gave his I have a dream speech
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the Black Panthers are founded by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale
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Martin Luther King is shot and killed, outside his hotel room by James Earl Ray