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Brown vs. Board of Education ruled that "seperate educational facilities are inherently unequal."
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After refusing to give up her seat to a white man on the public bus, Rosa Parks was arrested. This sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycotts.
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The Southern Christian Leadership Council was founded following the Montgomery Bus Boycott to be an African American civil rights organization.
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Nine students entered the school under the protection of the US army after schools had been intergrated.
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Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was created to coordinate civil rights demonstrations and to provide training for protests.
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After much difficulty, James Meredith finally became the first African-American student at the University of Mississippi.
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This was a letter that MLK wrote while he was inprisoned for nonviolent demonstrations.
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Martin Luther King Jr. gave this speech in front of the Lincoln Memorial. He called for racial equality in America
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JFK was assasinated by Lee Harvey Oswald while on a political campaign in Dallas.
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The 24th amendment banned the payment of poll taxes as a contition in voting in federal elections
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In the summer of 1964, this campaign was launched in order to promote vetoer registration.
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Three members of the CORE organization went missing. It was later found out that they were threatened and shot by several members of the KKK. Their bodies were found 44 days later near the murder site.
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This ended racial segregation in schools.
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Malcolm X was killed by assassins that were Black Muslims.
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Two marches and protests in Selma, Alabama. This was the political and emotional peak of the American Civil Rights movement.
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Many children and young adults began throwing rocks at cars being driven by white people. This started after a young black man was arrested. 34 deaths, 1,032 injuries, 3,438 arrests, and over $40 million in property damage.
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Developed in Okland, California by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale.
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The deadliest and most destructive riot in United States history.
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MLK was assasinated in Memphis, Tennessee at the Lorraine Hotel.
