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Plessy vs Ferguson
Establishes "seperate but equal" -
President Truman desegregates the army
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Brown vs Board of education
Declares school segregation unconstitutional -
Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks bus action sparks the Montgomery bus boycott -
Martin Luther King Jr.
Dr. King leads march on Washington -
Voting Rights Act
President Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act -
Dr. King is assassinated
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr is killed in Memphis. -
Civil Rights Movement comes to an end
