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  Africans Americans against the Board of Education fight for equal rights for black & white people to go to school together.
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  Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama.
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  Malcom X is assassinated on this date.
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  Selma March where lots of people are killed, also known as "Bloody Sunday"
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  Thurgood Marshall is appointed to the Supreme Court, being the first African-American to serve the Supreme Counrt Justice.