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Fair Deal
Desegregates military -
Board of Education
Ends Segregation in Public Schools. Overturned Plessy v Ferguson. -
Rosa Parks
Leads to Montgomery bus boycott -
Little Rock Nine
Court ruled black students wew allowed to go to Little Rock Central High School. -
Greensboro 4
Four students from North Carolina A&T university. -
Freedom Riders
Fight to end segregation in interstate travel. -
March on Washington
"I have a dream speech."
Led to passage of Civil Rights Act -
Civil Rights Act 1964
LBJ signs Civil Rights Act ending segregation in public places. -
Voting Rights Act 1965
LBJ signs Voting Rights Act ending literacy test -
Supreme Court
Thurgood Marshal, first African American Supreme Court Justice. Appointed by LBJ 1967 -
A Leader Dies
MLK Assassinated on a balcony in Memphis, Tennessee.
James Earl Ray pled guilty to avoid the death penalty by electrocution.
