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NO
1946 - Segregation on buses that crossed state borders was declared illegal -
NO
1948 - Discrimination in the armed forces became illegal -
NO
1952 - First year since 1881 without a lynching -
NO
1954 - The supreme court declared segregation in schools to be unconstitutional
December 1st 1955 - Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on the bus to a white person. -
NO
1955 - Montgomery Bus Boycott began -
NO
1957 - Dr. Martin Luther King began president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference -
NO
1957 - Civil Rights Act passed -
NO
1960 - Elijah Muhammad called for the creation of a seperate state for blacks -
high
1962 - The arrest of the Freedom Riders in the South -
high
1963 - The Leader of the NAACP was assassinated -
NO
1964 - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was awarded the nobel peace prize. -
NO
1965 - Watts Riot which lasted 6 days -
NO
1968 - Dr. King's assassination -
NO
1968 - Memphis sanitation workers went on strike
