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The 15th amendment to end racial discrimination for voting is approved.
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They founded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
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The Supreme Court ruled that segregation in public schools is unconstitutional.
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Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat, in the front of the colored section, to a white passenger. Her arrest launch bus boycotts.
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Nine black students are blocked from entering Central High School in an attempt to integrate.
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Four black college students sit-in at a Greensboro, North Carolina restaurant were they are not served.
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President John F. Kennedy sent troops to the University of Mississippi to escort James Meredith, the university's first black student.
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Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech at the March of Washington D.C.
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A bombing at a church in Birmingham, Alabama leaves four young black girls dead.
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Thurgood Marshall is the first black to be named to the Supreme Court.