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In Brown vs. Brown board of education, supreme Court declares segregated schools unconstitutional.
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Rosa Parks is arrested and the Montgomery bus Boycott begins!
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Martin Luther King Jr., and other southern ministers create SCLC
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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 to control the situation.
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Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his " I Have a Dream " speechh during the march on washitngon in support of a new civil rights act
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Civil rights act is passed!
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Voting rights Act is passed! Malcom X is assassinated.
