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Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into segragated southern united states in 1961 and years after that to test the united states supreme court decisions.
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MLKJ wrote a letter from Birmingham jail stating that the battle for racial segregation should be fought solely in courts instead of on the streets.
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The act made it where any history of voting practices could not implement any change effecting voting without first getting approval from the Department of justice.
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Rosa parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white man on a bus in Montgomery Alabama. She did this noviolently and was made a rallying point for organizing the black community.
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Martin Luther King was violently assassinated in Memphis Tenessee, by Jame Earl ray while giving a speech in his motel room balcony. There was a massive manhunt across america as authorities looked for him. when the police found him he was sentenced to 99 years in prison where he died at the age of 70.
