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Jackie Robinson enters the MLB
First black baseball player -
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Brown versus BOE
Decison overturned Plessy v. Ferguson case, which allowed school segregation -
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French Defeated at Dien Bien Phu
The french were defeated -
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Geneva Accords
took place in geneva switzerland in a way of uniting vietnam -
Emmit Till Killed
He was beat to death -
Rosa Parks arrested
Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat -
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Montgomery Bus Boycott
buses were boycotted by blacks in the south -
SCLC Founded
founded to coordinate and support non violence as a method of desegregation -
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Freedom Riders
Rode around D.C. to protest bus segregation -
James Meridith enters Ol Miss University
First black on campus -
"I Have a Dream Speech"
Delivered by MLK JR -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Got rid of segregation #killwhitey -
Gulf of Tonkin incident
confrontaion between north veitnam and the US -
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Operation Rolling Thunder
US bombed north veitnam heavily -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Womens voting rights -
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Tet Offensive
Sneak attacks by the north veitnamese -
MLK assassinated
MLK was killed by a white gunman -
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Woodstock
A trippy acid fest full of music -
US signs agreement to end war.
US signs peace treaty to end vietnam war