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Creation of the NAACP
African-American civil rights organization -
Jackie Robinson Breaks the Color Barrier
- First African American who play in baseball major league.
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Brown vs. Board of Education
- desegegrated in school by supreme court in 1954
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The Murder of Emmitt Till
- He was killed brutally by white guys because he whistled to white woman
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Montgomery Bus Boycott
- last till the next year
- Begin when Rosa Park refuse to give her seat to awhite passenger
- lead to desegregated
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The Little Rock 9
- first 9 African American attend highschool in Little Rock Central High School
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Ruby Bridges desegregate elementary school
- She is the first African- American who attend all white elementary school
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Letter from a Birmingham Jail
- From Martin Luther King Jr. wrote while he is in Birmingham Jail Alabama after a non violent protest
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Civil Rights Act of 1964
- ended segregation in public places
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Assassination of Malcolm X
- He was shot by Nation of Islam members because he isn't with them anymore.
- He was shot in NYC, NY
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Creation of the Black Panthers
- Black Panther Party for Self-Defense
- Political organization founded by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale.
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Thurgood Marshall Named Supreme Court Justice
First African American justice in Supreme court -
Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
- He got shot while standing on the balcony in Memphis Tennesse
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Election of Barack Obama
- first black president