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Before this date no black man was ever voted into the Supreme Court. Thurgood Marshall was vote into the Supreme Court earlier in 1967 but sworn into the Supreme Court on this date. During his time on the Supreme Court, he challenged an abundance of cases based on race or sex.

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President Lydon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act. Before this act the only people who could vote were any white person over the age of 18 and African American men over the age of 18. When this was passed, it aloud any African American to vote who were over the age of 18.

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Martin Luther King led thousands of non violent demonstrations to the steps of the capitol in Montgomery Alabama. The march was five days, totaled to 54 miles starting at Selma Alabama. The march took place because the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference were campaigning for the right to vote.

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President Lydon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act. This Act prohibited discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. This included public places, school, and employment.

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At approximately 10:22 am. about two hundred church members were in the Bingham Church. The bomb detonated in the east side basement. Four girls were found dead at the scene. They were Addie Mae Collins, Cynthia Wesley, Carole Robertson, and Denise McNair. More than twenty people were injured in the blast. The bombing was done by Robert E. Chambliss, Thomas Blanton, Bobby Frank Cherry, and Herman Frank Cash.

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On this date, about 250,000 people attended the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. This event was mainly about discrimination in employment, abuse of African American and other races, and for civil rights. The location was on the National Mall in Washington D.C. The idea came from A. Phillip Randolph.

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Medgar Evers was a Civil Rights activist who was murdered in his driveway. He was shot in the back. He was shot because of his hard work in getting black people to register to vote, joining the civil rights movement and for gathering people who witnessed the Emit Till murder case. The shooter was Byron De La Beckwith.

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Four black college students, Joseph McNeil, Franklin McCain, David Richmond, and Ezell Blair, sat at a whites only counter to have lunch at a diner in Greensboro North Carolina. They refused to leave the counter when asked and then still did not move when service was denied. Many other students joined them over the following weeks and months. Sit-ins spread from North Carolina to other states in the south. Later in July of 1960, the lunch counters were integrated.

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Rosa Parks was an African American woman who would not give her seat to a white passenger. Her refusal resulted in an arrest because she disobeyed the Alabama law. This event caused a three hundred eighty one day boycott of the Montgomery bus system. In 1956, the supreme court banned segregation on the public transportation

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May 17,1954 Supreme Court Declares School Segregation Unconstitutional

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May 17,1954 Supreme Court Declares School Segregation Unconstitutional

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The Supreme Court overturned the 1896 Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson in the Brown v. Board of Education case. They ruled in the Plessy v. Ferguson case that segregation laws were constitutional if equal facilities were provided to whites and blacks. In the Brown v. Board of Education case, the states could decide if the school districts were to integrate. More towards 1955, there were twenty-one states that integrated at a fast pace.