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May 17, 1954 - May 18, 1954
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Segregation in schools is unconstitutional.
December 1, 1955 - December 2, 1955
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Montgomery Bus Boycott begins and lasts 385 days
December 21, 1956 - December 22, 1956
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Montgomery Bus Boycott ends.
September 15, 1963 - September 16, 1963
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Four young girls (Denise McNair, Cynthia Wesley, Carole Robertson, and Addie Mae Collins) attending Sunday school are killed when a bomb explodes at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church.
1964 - 1965
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The Civil Rights Act prohibits discrimination of all kinds based on race, color, religion, or national origin.
August 1948 - September 1948
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Harlem finished graduate school and moves his family away from the South.
August 19, 1955 - August 20, 1955
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Hiram finally gets his way and is able to travel to Mississippi to visit his grandpa.
August 31, 1955 - September 1, 1955
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Emmett's body is found floating in the Tallahatchie River.
September 19, 1955 - September 20, 1955
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Trial begins in the Tallahatchie County Courthouse in Sumner, Mississippi with Judge Curtis L. Swango presiding.
September 30, 1955 - October 1, 1955
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Three months after their acquittal, Roy Bryant and J. W. Milam, described in an interview in Look magazine, how they kidnapped, tortured, and murdered Emmett Till.