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President Harry Truman issues Executive Order 9981 to end discrimination in the Armed Services.
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Brown v. Board of Education.
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Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat to a white man.
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Sixty black pastors and civil rights leaders from several southern states meet in Atlanta, Georgia to coordinate nonviolent protests against racial discrimination and segregation.
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President Dwight D. Eisenhower eventually sends federal troops to escort the "Little Rock Nine".
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President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Civil Rights Act of 1957 into law to help protect voter rights.
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The first sit in takes place in Greensboro, North Carolina.
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The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
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President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
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Malcolm X is assassinated during a rally by members of the Nation of Islam.
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Selma to Montgomery March.
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President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
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Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
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President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Right Act of 1986.
