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Supreme Court case that ended segregation in public schools.
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Young fourteen year old boy was murdered in Money, Mississippi because he talked to a white women. Her husband and brother-in-law had kidnapped Till from his uncle's home. The assailants were found not guilty, and Till's mother held an open casket funeral for her son.
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In Montgomery, Alabama Rosa Parks had refused to give up her seat to a white passenger, and when she still wouldn't give up her seat she was arrested. A boycott was organized the day of her trial where African Americans would refuse to ride the city buses and would last a year.
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Nine selected African american teens were chosen to integrate into Little Rock Central High School.
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Four young college students sat down in a lunch counter in Greensboro. They would give up their seats until they were given service.
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Civil Rights activist that rode interstate buses to protest against segregation around the country.
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Is a twenty-one page letter written by Martin Luther King Jr. while in a jail cell.
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About a million people had march in Washington D.C. demanding to end segregation, equal treatment, and for their rights to be protected.
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In Birmingham, Alabama on a Sunday morning a bomb had exploded in the downtown Sixteenth Street Baptist Church. It took the lives of four young African American girls.
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A law passed by Congress that prohibits any discrimination against people based on their race, sex, or religion.
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The ratification of the tax poll. It now allowed citizens to vote with out paying a tax fee.
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Law enforcement officers attacked unarmed marchers with tear gas, and billy clubs.
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President Lyndon Johnson signed an act that prohibited any discrimination with voting practices.
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Supreme court case that shut down laws against marriage between interracial couples. The ruling for the court case was unanimous court decision.