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Fair Deal Speech
Truman's effort to desegregate the military -
Brown v Board of Education
- Overturned Plessy v Ferguson
- Ends Segregation in Public Schools
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Montgomery Bus Boycott
- Led by Martin Luther King Jr
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SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Conference) forms
- Led by Martin Luther King Jr
- Organized marches and boycotts
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Little Rock Nine
- Court ruled that black students were allowed to go Little Rock Central High School
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Greensboro 4
Four students from North Carolina A&T University demonstrated a form of public disobedience -
March on Washington
- Million Man March
- Led to passage of the Civil Rights Act
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Civil Rights Act of 1964
Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Acts that ends segration public places -
Selma March
-"Bloody Sunday"
- Shown on Television -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Lyndon B. Johnson signs this act to end literacy tests for voting -
Thurgood Marshal becomes a Supreme Court Justice
- First African American Supreme Court Justice
- Appointed By Lyndon B. Johnson
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Martin Luther King Jr. Dies
- Assassinated by James Earl Ray
- Memphis, Tennessee
