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President Harry Truman signed Executive Order 9981, creating the President's Committee on Equality of Treatment and Opportunity in the Armed Services. The order mandated the desegregation of the U.S. military.

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U.S. Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren delivered the unanimous ruling in the landmark civil rights case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. State-sanctioned segregation of public schools was a violation of the 14th amendment and was therefore unconstitutional.

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Rosa Parks, an African American, was arrested for disobeying an Alabama law requiring black passengers to relinquish seats to white passengers when the bus was full. Blacks also were required to sit at the back of the bus.

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Montgomery Bus Boycott December 5 1955- December 1956

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Montgomery Bus Boycott December 5 1955- December 1956

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Mass protest against the bus system of Montgomery, Alabama, by civil rights activists and their supporters that led to a 1956 U.S. Supreme Court decision declaring that Montgomery’s segregation laws on buses were unconstitutional.

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Group of African American high-school students who challenged racial segregation in the public schools of Little Rock, Arkansas.

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Greensboro, NC Lunch Counter Sit-In February 1, 1960

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Greensboro, NC Lunch Counter Sit-In February 1, 1960

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The Greensboro sit-in was a civil rights protest that started in 1960, when young African American students staged a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, and refused to leave after being denied service. The sit-in movement soon spread to college towns throughout the South.

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Freedom Riders May 4, 1961 – December 10, 1961

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Freedom Riders May 4, 1961 – December 10, 1961

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A series of political protests against segregation by Blacks and whites who rode buses together through the American South in 1961.

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“Letter From Birmingham Jail” by MLK April 16, 1963

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“Letter From Birmingham Jail” by MLK April 16, 1963

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A letter written saying that people have a moral responsibility to break unjust laws and to take direct action rather than waiting potentially forever for justice to come through the courts.

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More than one thousand students skipped classes and gathered at Sixth Street Baptist Church to march to downtown Birmingham, Alabama.

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March on Washington (I Have a Dream Speech) August 28, 1963

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March on Washington (I Have a Dream Speech) August 28, 1963

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"I Have a Dream" is a public speech that was delivered by American civil rights activist and Baptist minister Martin Luther King Jr. during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 28, 1963. In the speech, King called for civil and economic rights and an end to racism in the United States.

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Birmingham 16th Street Church Bombing September 15, 1963

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Birmingham 16th Street Church Bombing September 15, 1963

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16th Street Baptist Church bombing, terrorist attack in Birmingham, Alabama, on September 15, 1963, on the predominantly African American 16th Street Baptist Church by local members of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK). Resulting in the injury of 14 people and the death of four girls, the attack garnered widespread national outrage.

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1,062 people were arrested (out-of-state volunteers and locals) 80 Freedom Summer workers were beaten. 37 churches were bombed or burned. 30 Black homes or businesses were bombed or burned.

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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin. Provisions of this civil rights act forbade discrimination on the basis of sex, as well as, race in hiring, promoting, and firing.

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Malcolm X assassinated February 21, 1965

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Malcolm X assassinated February 21, 1965

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Malcolm X, a religious and civil rights leader, was assassinated during a speech at the Audubon Ballroom in Manhattan. Malcolm X was just 39 years old and left behind his wife, Betty Shabazz, and six young daughters—including twins born after his death.

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Bloody Sunday of Selma to Montgomery March March 7, 1965

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Bloody Sunday of Selma to Montgomery March March 7, 1965

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On March 7, 1965, an estimated 525 to 600 civil rights marchers headed southeast out of Selma on U.S. Highway 80. The march was led by John Lewis of SNCC and the Reverend Hosea Williams of SCLC, followed by Bob Mants of SNCC and Albert Turner of SCLC.

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Voting Rights Act of 1965 August 6, 1965

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Voting Rights Act of 1965 August 6, 1965

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This act was signed into law on August 6, 1965, by President Lyndon Johnson. It outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War, including literacy tests as a prerequisite to voting.

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A case in which the Court held that the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits governments from discriminating against individuals on the basis of race.

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Martin Luther King assassinated April 4, 1968

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Martin Luther King assassinated April 4, 1968

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At 6:05 P.M. on Thursday, 4 April 1968, Martin Luther King was shot dead while standing on a balcony outside his second-floor room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.