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Supreme Court declares segregation in schools is unconstitutional
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Rosa Parks refuses to give her seat up to a white person
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James Meredith becomes the first black student to enroll at the University of Mississippi
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MLK is arrested and jailed in Birmingham. Wrote "Letter from Birmingham Jail"
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MLK delivers his "I Have a Dream" speech
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Sixteenth Street Baptist Church Bombing
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President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964
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Bloody Sunday in Selma, Alabama
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Congress passes the Voting Rights Act of 1965
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MLK is assassinated by James Earl Ray
