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Civil Rights History
  1954  Brown Vs. The Board of Education
            This out laws Seggragation in public schools.
  1955  Bus boycott launched in Montgomery, Ala.
            Rosa Parks, is arrested December 1 for refusing to 
            give up her seat to a white person .  
  1956  After more than a year of boycotting the buses and a
            legal fight, the Montgomery buses desegregate. 
  1967  At previously all-white Central High in Little Rock, 
            Ark., 1,000 paratroopers are called to restore order 
            and escort nine black students. 
  1960  The sit-in protest movement begins at a      
            Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, N.C. 
  1961  Freedom rides begin. Groups of black and white 
            people ride buses through the South to challenge 
            segregation. 
  1962  Two killed, many injured in riots as James Meredith is 
            enrolled as the first black at the University of 
            Mississippi.
  1963  Police arrest King and other ministers demonstrating 
            in Birmingham, Ala., then turn fire hoses and police 
            dogs on the marchers. 
            250,000 people attend the March on Washington, 
            D.C. urging support for pending civil-rights legislation. 
            The event was highlighted by King's "I have a dream" 
            speech. 
  1964  President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964
  1965  Malcolm X is murdered Feb. 21, 1965. 
            President Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 
            1965. The act authorized federal examiners to register
            qualified voters and suspended devices such as 
            literacy tests that aimed to prevent African Americans 
            from voting. 
  1968  Martin Luther King Jr. assisanated