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Segregation is ended in the armed forces
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Brown v. Board of Education case ends segregation in schools
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Rosa Parks refuses to give up her bus seat
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Black pastors and other civil rights leaders meet to discuss non-violent protests against segregation
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Little Rock Nine are blocked from entering Central High School
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Eisenhower signs the Civil Rights Act of 1957 to protect voters rights
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Black students refuse to leave the "whites only" counter without being served
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March on Washington
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A bomb at 16th St. Baptist Church is set off
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Civil Rights Act of 1964 is signed
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Malcolm X is assassinated
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Selma to Montgomery march begins
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Selma to Montgomery March ends
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Martin Luther King Jr. is assasinated
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Literary tests are no longer required for voting registration
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Fair Housing Act is signed
