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Civil Rights Movement
During this time the Civil Rights movement is sparked and desegregation begins. -
Brown v. Board
When a little black girl had to travel further than she had to just for a simple education, people realize how cruel it was and accepted her into the white school. -
Mississippi Trial
The Mississippi Trial was when a negro boy was n=beaten and killed for whistling at a white women which from where he originally was from was okay to do. -
Rosa Parks Boycott
Rosa Parks refuses to get up from her seat for a young white man who is perfectly fine to stand. -
Sit-ins
Sit-ins began in the 60's and some even sooner, but sit-ins were when black males or females went into a diner during white serving hours or white only diners and just sat there until someone took their order. -
First black student to enroll in the University of Mississippi
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Martin Luther King is arrested and jailed during anti-segregation
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3 civl rights workers are found in a dam
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Malcolm X, shot to death
Malcolm X, black nationalist and founder of the Organization of Afro-American Unity, is shot to death. It is believed the assailants are members of the Black Muslim faith -
Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education,
