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The "Little Rock 9" enter Central High under protection of the United States Army's 101st Airborne Division.
On February 21, 1965, Malcom X is assassinated
On December 25, 1956, Reverend Fred Shuttleworth's house is bombed in Birmingham.
On May 17, 1954, the Supreme Court rules on the landmark case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kans., and unanimously agreeing that segregation in public schools is unconstitutional.
On August 6, 1965, President Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act outlawing literacy tests for voting eligibility in the South.
On April 4, 1968, Dr King is assassinated in Memphis.
In February of 1968, the FBI closes it's investigation of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing without filing charges.
On December 1, 1955, NAACP member Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat at the front of the "colored section" of a bus to a white passenger.
On December 5, 1955, Martin Luther King, Jr. supports Rosa and starts a bus boycott.
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On November 13,1956, the Supreme Court affirms ban on segregated seating on Alabama buses.
On October 2, 1967, Thurgood Marshall is sworn as the first black Supreme Court justice.
On September 2, 1957, Klan members kidnap and castrate Edward Aaron in Birmingham
On August 28, 1955, Emmett Till is kidnapped and murdered in Mississippi.
On April 3, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "I've Been to the Mountaintop" speech in Memphis, Tenessee.
On March 25, 1965, Martin Luther King Jr. Leads thousands of nonviolent crusaders to the completion of a 54-mile pilgrimage from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.