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Landmark Supreme court Ruling Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka Kansas."Seperate but Equal" Schools ruled unconstitutional.
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Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man on the Montgomery City bus.Rosa Parks was arrested and the Bus Boycott started.
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They were the first black teenagers to attend a all white Central High School.
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On Feb. 1, 1960, the Greensboro Four, as they would later be called, felt isolated and alone as they sat at that whites-only lunch counter at the Woolworth Store on South Elm Street.
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The Bombing of the sixteenth Street Baptist Church results in four black girls death.
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15th of June The Civil Rights act passed.
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200,000 march in Washington listening to the I Have a Dream speech.
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Martin Luther King Jr. Was assassinated by a man named James Earl Ray.
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The March from Selma to Montgomery was guided by Martin Luther King Jr. It twas five days long and 54 miles.
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The Voting Rights Act of 1965 forbid the use of literacy tests and other voter tests as prerequisites for voting. It also authorized federal intervention to aid blacks in registering to vote in the South.
