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When Brown won in the case against the board of education to desegregate school.
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Rosa Parks refused to give up he seat to a white man. She was arrested and this started the buss boycott in Alabama.
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This is when the first 9 black Americans went to an all white school and got harassed.
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4 black freshman sat down in a whites only lunch counter and were refused to have their order taken.
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When Ruby Bridges went into school with 4 armed federal marshals and there were angry mobs throwing things at her.
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When 7 black and 6 white men went to court to try to get desegregated public bathroom so all races can go in.
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When Martin Luther King Jr. set a protest for black rights there were economic boycotts.
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A crowd of about 250,000 protested in Washington DC
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This is very important because he won a big award.
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This act gave federal government the right to prevent racial discrimination in employment.
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Malcolm X was murdered during a lector in Audubon Ballroom in Harlem New York
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MLK tried to set up an arrangement for African Americans to have more rights and the troopers came back with tear gas.
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This is when riots broke lose after a white officer used aggressive violence towards a black man.
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Huey P Newton and Bobby Seale founded his to protect black neighborhoods from police brutality
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Interracial marriage was considered unconstitutional in Virginia.
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Riots in Detroit after white police officers raided a black neighborhood and a bar and arrested 82 black people.
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MLK was killed by a sniper when staying in a hotel. His murder set off riots all across America.