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begins playing for the Brooklyn dodgers, breaking the racial barrier in major league baseball

president truman ended segregation in armed forces

supreme court ended segregation in schools

Emmett Till , an African American, was brutally murdered for flirting and whistling at a white lady

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

Because of the 9 black students who bravely attended white schools, all African American students were given the right to an equal education.

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

The SNCC gave younger blacks more say in the Civil Rights Movement

groups of black people on buses went into the deep south and were viciously attacked

More than a thousand African Americans students gathered to downtown to talk to the mayor about segregation in their city