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1954 May 17 U.S. Supreme Court bans segragation in public schools.
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1954: 8th September. Ruby was born in Mississippi, four years later they move to New Orleans
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1995: 1st December. Rosa Parks, an African-American woman, is arrested December 1 for refusing to give up her seat to a white person. Bus boycott launches in Montgomery, Alabama
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1956: 21st December. After more than a year of boycotting the buses and a legal fight, the Montgomery buses desegregate
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1960: August.Federal court forced the desegregation of schools in he South
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1960: 14th November. January Ruby had her first day at Frantz Elementary School For whites in New Orleans
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4 May 1961 Freedom rides begin from Washinton, D.C:Groups of black and white people ride buses through the South to challenge segregatiion.
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16 april 1963 Police arrest Civil Rights Leader Rev. Martin Luther King JR and other ministers demostrating in Birmingham,Alabama,then turn fire hoses and police dogs on the marchers.
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11 june 1963 President F Kennedy calls for Civil rights Act
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22 november 1963 President John F Kennedy 1961-1963, shot dead
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1964: 14th January Look magaszine published Norman Rockwell's painting The Problem We All Live With
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2 july 1964 President Johnson signs Civil Rights Act of 1964
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21 february 1965 black Nationalist Leader Malcom X is murdered.
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4 april Civil Rights Leader The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinate in Mephis, Tennessee, unleashing violence in more than 100 cities.
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1 february The story of Ruby Bridges was published
