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Brown v. Board of Education
A supreme court case that ended racial segregation in public schools. -
Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama on a bus. -
Greensboro, North Carolina
Four college students refuse to leave a whites only lunch counter without being served. -
March on Washington
250,000 marched in D.C. for civil rights. Martin Luther King gives his I have a dream speech. -
Civil Rights Act
President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the act to prevent employment discrimination. -
Voting Rights Act
President Johnson signed to prevent literacy tests from being a voting requirement. -
Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr. was shot on the balcony of his hotel room in Tennessee.