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15th Amendment passed giving black men the right to vote
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Plessy vs. Ferguson decision makes "separate but equal" conditions in America
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Jackie Robinson breaks the "color barrier" in Major League Baseball
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Brown vs. Board of Education Decision
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Emmett Till is murdered in Money, Mississippi
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Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat
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Martin Luther King Jr. organizes the Montgomery Bus Boycott
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The "Little Rock Nine" integrates Central High School
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James Meredith enrolls at Ole Miss and a riot breaks out
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The Children's March in Birmingham, Alabama
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Medgar Evers is murdered outside his home
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Martin Luther King Jr. Gives his "I Have a Dream" speech at the March on Washington
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Four young black girls are killed in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing
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24th Amendment is passed outlawing the poll tax
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"Freedom Summer" begins in Mississippi
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Michael Schwerner, James Chaney and Andrew Goodman are murdered
The bodies were found on August 4, 1964 -
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is passed
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March from Selma to Montgomery for voting rights
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Voting Rights Act of 1965 passed
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Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated in Memphis
