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Jackie Robinson enters Major League Baseball
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Executive Order 9981 signed by President Truman
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Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court Ruling
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Emmett Till is murdered
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Rosa Parks Arrest
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Montgomery Bus Boycott
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Little Rock Nine Intervention
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Civil Rights Act of 1957 is passed
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Greensboro Sit-In Protest
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Integration of Ole Miss Riots
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The Birmingham Children’s March
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George Wallace’s “Stand in the Schoolhouse Door”
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Medgar Evers shooting
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March on Washington / I Have a Dream Speech
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16th Street Baptist Church Bombing
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Freedom Summer
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Civil Rights Act of 1964 is passed
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Malcolm X is murdered
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The Selma Marches / Bloody Sunday
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Voting Rights Act of 1965 is passed
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Black Panther Party is formed
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Loving v. Virginia Supreme Court ruling
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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is assassinated
