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This is the time period when black people were fighting for their equal rights.
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In 1957 a judge ordered an all-white school, Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansa, to let African Americans go to the school.
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Linda Brown went to court to with Thurgood Marshall to get the judge to have "seperate but equal" schools. They went against the Board of Education and the judge said yes. Now black kids and white kids can go to school together.
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On December 1st, Rosa Parks boards a bus. After a few blocks, a white man boards the bus. There was no more room left in the front of the bus. The white man told Rosa Parks to go in the back but Rosa said no. Rosa Parks was later arrested but she later started a bus boycott.
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President Kennedy sent 5,000 federal troops to contain the violence and riots surrounding the incident. James Meredith joins a all white school.
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Martin Luther King Jr. starts a march to go to Washington Monument and make a big speech to over 1,000 people.
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While in a parade, JFK was suddednly shot by a sniper. Lee Harvey Oswald was the sniper who killed JFK.
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Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act so that everyone in the USA is equal and free.
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This gave every citizen (except children) over 18 years old to vote. President Johnson signed the act.
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James Earl Ray murdered Martin Luther King Jr. with a gun. Many people showed up for his funeral.
