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This executive order abolished racial segregation in the U.S. military.

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The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that racial segregation in public schools violated the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution.

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Rosa Parks was arrested because she refused to move from her seat for a white passenger.

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The Montgomery Bus Boycott resulted in the Supreme Court ruling segregation on public buses unconstitutional.

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Nine African-American students arrived at Central High School. They made their way through a crowd shouting obscenities and throwing objects.

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A civil rights protest, 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.

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Group of white and African-American civil rights activists who participated in Freedom Rides, bus trips through the american south in 1961 to protest on the segregation in bus terminals.

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Birmingham 16th Street Church Bombing, 1963

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Birmingham 16th Street Church Bombing, 1963

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Around 10:24 am, a dynamite bomb exploded in the back stairwell of the downtown Sixteenth Street Baptist Church.

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John F. Kennedy assassination, November 1963

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John F. Kennedy assassination, November 1963

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JFK was assassinated as he rode in a motorcade through Dealey Plaza in downtown Dallas, Texas.

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"Letter from Birmingham Jail" by MLK, April 1963

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"Letter from Birmingham Jail" by MLK, April 1963

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Martin Luther King, Jr wrote in longhand the letter of his response to a public statement of concern and caution.

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

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MUrdered by a white supremacist. He was a civil rights advocate who spurred a riot at the University of Mississippi.

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March on Washington (I have a dream speech), August 1963

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March on Washington (I have a dream speech), August 1963

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I have a Dream is a speech delivered by MLK during the March on Washington. A call for equality and freedom.

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Congress passed Public Law 88-362. This Civil Rights Act prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.

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A voter registration drive aimed at increasing the number of registered Black voters in Mississippi.

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Malcolm X was assassinated in Audubon Ballroom as his family took cover in the front row.

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State troopers and county possemen attacked the unarmed marchers with billy clubs and tear gas after they passed over the county line, this event became known as Bloody Sunday.

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It outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the CivilWar, including literacy tests as a prerequisite to voting.

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A landmark civil rights decision of the U.S. Supreme Court which they ruled the laws banning interracial marriage and dealt a major blot to segregation.

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Martin Luther King Assassinated, April 1968

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Martin Luther King Assassinated, April 1968

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MLK was assassinated on April 4th 1968 in Memphis, TN. His assassination led to an outpouring of anger among Black Americans and also national mourning that helped speed the way for an equal housing bill that achieved the Civil Rights era.