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April 15, 1947
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begins playing for the Brooklyn dodgers, breaking the racial barrier in major league baseball
July 26, 1948
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president truman ended segregation in armed forces
May 17, 1954
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supreme court ended segregation in schools
August 28,1955
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Emmett Till , an African American, was brutally murdered for flirting and whistling at a white lady
december 1, 1955
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rosa parks refuses to give up her bus seat to a white passenger. Her action started a bus boycott that wanted to end segregation on transportation
September 23, 1957
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Because of the 9 black students who bravely attended white schools, all African American students were given the right to an equal education.
February 1, 1960
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The 1960 sit ins effected partial desegregation without legal action, but was proved to be one of the simplest and effective protests of the civil Rights Movement
April 1960
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The SNCC gave younger blacks more say in the Civil Rights Movement
May 4, 1961
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groups of black people on buses went into the deep south and were viciously attacked
May 2, 1963
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More than a thousand African Americans students gathered to downtown to talk to the mayor about segregation in their city
July 2, 1964
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The act prohibited discrimination of public places, provided for the interrogation of schools and other public facilities and made employment discrimination illegal.
February 18, 1965
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Jimmie Lee Jackson was shot and killed by an Alabama state trooper and helped the Civil Rights demonstration, which led to the voting rights act
March 25, 1965
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Martin Luther King led thousands of nonviolent demonstrators to the steps of the capitol in Montgomery, Alabama, after a 5-day, 54-mile march from Selma, Alabama
August 6, 1965
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Congress passed the voting Rights act, it banned literacy tests and other barriers to African American Voting.