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Gave Truman the ability to desegregate the military.
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Ends segregation in public schools.
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A woman named Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on the bus. She was later arrested. This led to the Montgomery bus boycott.
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Eisenhower sends troops hesitantly to integrate public schools.
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Four students from North Carolina A&T University sits at a whites only lunch counter.
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Buses were bombed by the KKK.
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MLK gave his "I have a dream speech".
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LBJ signs Civil Rights Act ending segregation in public places.
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Martin Luther King Jr. led thousands of nonviolent demonstrators to the steps of the capitol in Montgomery, Alabama.This was also known as "Bloody Sunday".
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LBJ signs Voting Rights Act ending literacy test.
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Thurgood Marshal was the first African-American Supreme Court Justice.
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MLK was assassinated on a balcony in Memphis, Tennessee.
