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Schools Desegregate
On May 17, 1954 the Supreme Court decided to desegregate schools -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
On December 1, 1955 Rosa Parks refused to give her seat to a white person and got herself arrested causing thousands of African Americans to boycott buses -
Little Rock Nine
On September 4, 1957 9 African American students went to an all white school -
Greensboro Sit Ins
On Febuary 1, 1960 four black students sat down at the whites only lunch counter inside the Woolworth store -
The Childern's March
On May 2, 1963 to keep the movement alive, thousands of childern, some as young as six hit the streets of Birmingham, Alabama -
March On Washington
On August 28, 1963 thousands of African Americans headed to Washington where Martin Luther King Jr. deliverd his famous "I Have A Dream" speach -
Sixteen Street Baptist Church Bombing
On a Sunday morning in September 1963 the KKK planted 15 sticks of dynamite on the Sixteen Street Baptist Church and killed 4 childern -
Civil Rights Act Of 1964
The Civil Rights Act Of 1964 outlawed segregation in public facilities -
Voting Acts Right of 1965
On Auguest 6, 1965 African Americans gained the right to vote -
Dr. King's Assassination
On April 4, 1968 King got shot to death by James Earl Ray or later got arrested