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Linda Brown was denied admission into her neighborhood school in topeka becuase of her race. with the help of the NAACP her parents sued the Topeka school board
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Rosa Parks leaves her job and went to go onto a bus and she sat where the white people are supposted to sit and when the driver saw a white man standing he asked the 3 africa americans to leave the seat she refused and the police where called.
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President Eisenhower sends trooops to little rock to ensure integration of a highschool
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4 young Africa Americans,Joeph McNeil, Ezell Blair Jr., David Richmond, and Franklin McCain entrolled at north carolina Agricultural and Technical College, an African American college in greensbo. the four spent evenings talking about the civil rights movement. McNeil suggested a Sit-in at the whites only lunch counter.
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James Farmer organizes the first Freedom Riders to desegregate interstate bus travel
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James Meredith tries to register at the University of Mississippi; Riots force Kennedy to send troops
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Martin luther king kr leads protests in Birmingham alabama; police assault the protestors and King is jailed
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King delivers his I have a dream speech during the march on Washington in support of the new civil rights act
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Congress passes the Voting Rights Act of 1965
