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| Thurgood Marshall (NAACP) convinces the Warren Court in Brown v. Board of Education that "separate facilities are inherently unequal" |
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| Emmett Till is brutally murdered for acting "fresh" toward a married white woman in Mississippi |
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| Rosa Parks and MLK lead a year-long bus boycott in Montgomery that breaks down segregation. MLK will soon form SCLC |
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| Ike sends in federal troops to desegregate Little Rock's Central High School. |
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| Greensboro sit-ins begin in North Carolina, convincing thousands of southern blacks to protest elsewhere and organize SNCC |
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| James Farmer (CORE) leads the Freedom Rides-a brutal bus trip through the Deep South- to demonstrate that federal court decrees requiring desegregation were not being obeyed |
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| James Meredith finally enrolls at Ole Miss, but the ensuing violence kills two |
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| MLK organizes Project Confrontation in Birmingham, prompting police commissioner Bull Connor to use fire hoses and dogs on the demonstrators and to jail MLK |
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| Alabama governor George Wallace tries, unsuccessfully, to block 2 black students from entering the University of Alabama |
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| MLK leads a massive march of 250,000 on Washington for civil rights legislation |
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| CORE & SNCC (Bob Moses) organize Freedom Summer which leaves several workers dead |
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| Fannie Lou Hamer leads the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party to demand seating at the national convention in Atlantic City, New Jersey |
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| Malcolm X is murdered in Harlem just as his inspirational autobiography is published; MLK and John Lewis of SNCC lead the bloody Selma march in Alabama, convincing Congress to enact the far reaching Voting Rights Act to register millions of blacks |
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| James Meredith is shot during his March From Fear from Memphis, TN to Jackson MS; Stokely Carmichael begins shouting "Black Power" |
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| MLK is murdered by James Earl Ray, Memphis TN |
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| National Association for the Advancement of Colored People |
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| Southern Christian Leadership Conference |
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| Congress of Racial Equality |
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| Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee |
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