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Founded in response to lynching and race riots in Illinois, the NAACP became the worlds premier advocates equal oppurtunity and civil rights.
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This is a court case that went all the way to the supreme court. The verdict ended segregation in our schools.
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The Federal Interstate Commerce Commision bans segregation on buses and trains.
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People in Montgomery refused to ride the bus until they were treated fairly.
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Led by Martin Luther King, the MIA focused on racial segregation in the south.
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Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat to a white man on the bus.
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4 black College kids conduct a sit-in in a restraunt where black patrons were not allowed.
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Martin Luther King delivers the " I have a dream speech" in washington, in front of hundreds of thousands.
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Freedom rides begin in Washington D.C,
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Medgar Evers was killed by a sniper's bullet, because of his role as a leader of the civil rights movement.
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Race Riots occur in Harlem, Philidelphia.
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Congress passed the civil rights act, making discrimination based on race illegal.
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Malcolm X is shot in the chest with a sawed off shot gun.
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Race riots occur in Detroit, Newark, and New jersey.
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Watts Riots occur in Los Angeles.
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Thurgood Marshall is named first Black to be a supreme court justice.
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Martin Luther King Jr. is assasinated in Memphis. His shooter gets 99 years.