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Brown v. Board of Education
Brown v. Board of Education took a step forward in desegregating America by ruling segregation in schools unconstitutional -
Rosa Parks is arrested
Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama bus. she was arrested for doing so which enraged civil rights leader -
the "Little Rock Nine"
Nine high school students from Little Rock, Arkansas, are blocked from integrating into Little Rock Central High school. they are escorted by federal troops sent by President Dwight D. Eisenhower. -
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Freedom Riders
all throughout 1961, a group of black and white activists who took bus trips through the South to protest segregated bus terminals and attempted to use white only spaces -
the march on washington
250,000 people were in Washington for the march on Washington. there, Martin Luther King Jr gave his famous " I have a dream" speech.
