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Black Power 1960's timespan events

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    1960

    Sit-in Lunch counter
    John F. Kennedy directly speaking to the youth
    SNCC foundation
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    1961

    Freedom Riders on action
    Got on Washington D.C. in the bus, to see if busses were desegregated
    Bad result - almost killed in the act, pathways blocked, not allowed in busses most cases
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    1962

    First Black student at the university of Mississippi
    Lynched involvement In Mississippi and Georgia
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    1963

    MLK Speech (March on Washington)
    Bombing of the 4 girls in the stairwheel (16th Street Baptist Church)
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    1964

    Civil Rights Act
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    1965

    Voting Rights Act
    Malcolm X assassination
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    1966

    Black Panther Party founded
    Nonviolent actions weren't resulting (impatient)
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    1967

    Black and White intermarriage
    Big conflicts and disagreements between this
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    1968

    Martin Luther King Jr. Assassination
    First Black Student Union
    Anti-War protests