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Fair Deal
Desegregation of the military -
Brown vs. Board of Education
Ends segregation in public schools. Helped to end Jim Crow laws. -
Montgomery Bus Boycotts
Civil Rights Movement begins -
Little Rock Nine
Eisenhower sends troops hesitantly to intergrate public schools. -
Greensboro 4
Four students had a sit-in at a segregated cafe as a form of public disobedience -
Freedom Riders
Whites and blacks road a bus together to fight segregation on interstate travel and the bus was bombed by the KKK. -
March on Washington
Also known as the "Million Man March" where Martin Luther KIng Jr. said his I have a dream speech. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
LBJ signs this act which ended segregation in public places. -
Voting Rights of 1965
LBJ signs this act which ended the literacy test. -
Thurgood Marshal
First African American Supreme Court Justice appointed LBJ -
A Leader Dies
Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated by James Earl Ray
