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Supreme Court decision that racial segregation is constitutional.
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Sylvia Mendez 9, her father became a plaintiff in a lawsuit that forced the Westminster school district,
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Supreme Court agreeing that segregation in public schools is unconstitutional.
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14 year old Emmett Till is brutally beaten, shot, and dumped in a River for whistling at a white woman. The 2 men accused of the murder are white.
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Rosa Parks sparks the boycott by refusing to give up her seat in the front of a bus.
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Parks was tried and convicted for disorderly conduct and this launched a citywide boycott of the buses.
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Although segregating schools weren't allowed they were still segregated and 9 kids were blocked by the national guard from entering school
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The Greensboro sit-ins were events in the civil rights movement
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Civil rights activists rode buses to the segregated places in the south to protest civil rights violations.
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Speech about civil rights and the wrongs of segregation.
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1/4 of a million people marched down the National Mall in Washington DC
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Four girls are killed when a bomb explodes at the 16th Street Baptist Church planted by the KKK
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The 24th Amendment abolishes the poll tax which kept african americans from voting
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Thousands of civil rights workers spread throughout the south to help african americans register to vote
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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 did not allow forms of discrimination against racial, ethnic, national and religious minorities and women
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600 people walk from Selma to Montgomery and with only 6 blocks, walked state police attack them.
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Made it easier for Southern blacks to register to vote.
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Executive Order 11246, established requirements for non-discriminatory practices in hiring and employment on race
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Went beyond voting and political education and fought for the redistribution of wealth.
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Martin Luther King was shot while he was standing on the balcony of his hotel room
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Civil Rights Act of 1968, against discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of housing.