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Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated

Martin Luther King Jr. was shot and killed by James Earl Ray outside his room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. The assassination sparked riots across the country.

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Robert Kennedy assassinated

Just a few hours after the close of the California Democratic primary, presidential hopeful Senator Robert F. Kennedy was shot by Sirhan Sirhan. Kennedy died a day later of his wounds.

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Urban riots

More than seventy-five major race riots occured in 1967. The largest was in Detroit and began when police raided an after-hours bar. The violence in Detroit lasted for five days, during which thirty-four people were killed and seven thousand arrested.

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Medgar Evers murdered

Civil rights organizer and NAACP state field secretary Medgar Evers was assassinated outside his home in Jackson, Mississippi.

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Civil Rights Act of 1964

President Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Title VII of the act banned discrimination based on sex, race, color, religion, or national origin.

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Malcolm X assassinated

Radical black leader and former Nation of Islam minister Malcolm X was assassinated during a lecture in Harlem. Three Nation of Islam members were later convicted of the murder.

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Malcolm X named national minister of Nation of Islam

Malcolm X became the first national minister of the Nation of Islam.

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Dwight D. Eisenhower elected

Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower was easily elected president of the United States with 442 electoral votes and 55.2 percent of the popular vote.

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Brown v. Board of Education

In the case of Brown v. Board of Education, the Supreme Court struck down Plessy v. Ferguson’s “separate but equal” policy when it ruled that segregation of public school children based on race was unconstitutional.

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Brown v. Board reaffirmed

In Cooper v. Aaron, the Supreme Court ruled that the governor and legislature of Arkansas were bound by the court’s Brown v. Board of Education ruling. The case affirmed the Supreme Court’s rulings and interpretation of the US Constitution as the “supreme law of the land.”