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The supreme court hears Linda Brown's case.
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The court rules that schools must be desegregated.
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Emmett Till is murdered after whistling at a white girl.
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The segregation of busing and transportation becomes illegal.
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Rosa Parks does not give her seat up on a bus for a white man.
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The University of Alabama is court ordered to accept the first black student yet finds legal ways of preventing her attendance.
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Martin Luther King assist in the founding of the SCLC and is elected their first president.
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The courts rule that the threat of mob violence is not a good enough reason to delay segregation.
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The supreme court rules that the University of Mississippi must accept James Meredith, a black war vet.
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Rioting occurs over James Meredith's acceptance.
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Martin Luther King is arrested for demonstrating without a permit.
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President Kennedy delivers a speech explaining why he sent the National Guard in order to allow two African-American students into the University of Alabama.
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Three thousand marchers leave Selma for Montgomery on March 21, and complete the march without opposition.