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The brown v. Board allowed seprate but equal facilities. There was alot of sergregation in school, so the outcome of this was banning segregation in school.
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Rev. George Lee killed for leading voter-registratiopn drive
Belzoni, Mississippi -
Murdered for organizing black voters.
Brookhaven, Mississippi -
Murdered for speaking to white women.
Money, Mississippi -
Slain by nightriders opposed to school improvements.
Mayflower, Texas -
She refused to give up her seat to a white man, and then she got arrestested. This caused many boycotts and riots.
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Killed by Klansmen.
Montgomery, Alabama -
Congress passed this law. It showed supoost of the supreme courts brown decision. It was primarly a voting rights bill.
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President Eisenhower orders federal troops to enforce school desegregation
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Taken from jail and lynched.
Poplarville, Mississippi -
Black students sage sit it at a whutes ony lunch counter in Greersboro, North Carolina
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Political protesters who rode buses through the south. Some whites were involoved if they were apart of.
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Voter registration worker killed by white legislator.
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Taken from bus and killed by police. Taylorville, Mississippi
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French reporter killed during Ole Miss riot. Oxford Mississippi
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Riots erupt when James Meredith, a black student enrolls at Ole Miss. They got the governments force to support the black freedom struggle.
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Slain during one-man march against segregation. Attalla, Alabama
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Birmingham police attack marching children with dogs and fire hoses.
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George Wallace stands in schoolhouse door to stop university integration.
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Medgar Evers was a Civil rights leader. He was shot to death in a driveway outside his home.
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250,000 Americans march on Washington for civil rights. It was for jobs and freedom in the nations capital. MLK delivered hid "I have a dream" speech.
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Youth killed during wave of raciest violence. Birmingham Alabama
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Schoolgirls killed in bombing of Sixteenth Street Baptist Church. Birmingham, Alabama
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Witness to murder of civil nights worker assasinated. Liberty Mississippi
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Killed protesting construction of segregated school. Cleveland Ohio
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Killed by Klansmen. Meadville, Mississippi
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James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, Micheal Schwerner
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President Johnson passed the law. It ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination.
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Killed by Klansmen while driving south
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Civil rights marcjer killed by state trooper
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March volunteer beaten to death
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Killed by Klansmen while transporting marchers
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Thousands complete the Selma to Montgomery Voting Rights March. It was a protest to racial injustice. There was national outrage. Congress passed the voting rights act.
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Black deputy killed by nightriders
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Killed by nightriders
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Seminary student killed by deputy
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Student civil rights activist killed in dispute
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Black community leader killed in Klan bombing
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Killed by Klansmen
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Slain by nightriders
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Thurgood Marshall swom in as first black Supreme Court Justice. He worked on the court trying to end racial discrimination before. He was thr first black so that showed that discrimination was ending.
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The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. He was assasinated in a hotel in Memphis, the assasination sparked many riots. The death was such A big impact because he was the most important voice in the civil rights movement and he was working for equality.
