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Rosa was arrested on this date, for not getting up and giving her seat in the front of the bus to a white man.
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MLK Jr. and others, started the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
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Nine couragous students were walked to school by the Air Froce/National Guard to ensure theire safety.
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MLK, gives his "I have a dream" speech, most of it from improv didn't have that speech written out.
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The Voting Rights Act of 1965
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This was the assanation day of Malcom X, he was killed by; 3 Black Muslims. He was 39.
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Stokley was arrested for setting up a tent on the campus on an all black high school.
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On this day, A politcal party, called the Black Panthers went to fight the injustice and police brutality in the ghettos.
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Martin Luther King Jr. was killed, standing on the balcony of his room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, TN.
