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Rosa Parks is arrested for refusing to surrender her seat on a bus to a white passenger.
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The bus boycott ended when Montgomery passed an ordinance authorizing black bus passengers to sit virtually anywhere they chose on buses.
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The Little Rock Nine are escorted into Little Rock Central High School by the National Guard.
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A series of sit-in begin in Greensboro on February 1st, 1960.
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Thousands of African American children marched in Birmingham, Alabama to purposefully get arrested and fill up the jails. "As I have said on numerous occasions, we are not going to stand for this in Birmingham. And if necessary we will fill the jail full and we don't care whose toes we step on." - Bull Connor
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gives his famous I Have a Dream speech. "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.”
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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin.
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Malcolm X is assassinated by the Nation of Islam
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.
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Ron Stallworth posed as a white man over several phone calls with the KKK. They bought his act and made him an official KKK member.
