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1944 Irene Morgan Kirkaldy refused to change her seat on the bus http://www.potomacnews.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=RTD/MGArticle/RTD_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1031771154358&path=!news!blackhistory&s=1058750353270

1953 Rev. Oliver Brown et al v. Board of Education, Topeka http://www.jsonline.com/news/metro/jan04/204053.asp

1953 Vicki Henderson, Donald Henderson, Linda Brown (Oliver's daughter), James Emanuel, Nancy Todd, and Katherine Carper http://bcm.bc.edu/issues/summer_2004/ft_brown.html

1954 Thurgood Marshall represented Brown vs Board http://www.americaslibrary.gov/aa/marshallthrgd/aa_marshallthrgd_subj_e.html

1955 Emmett Till and his mother Mamie Bradley http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/civilrights/cr-exhibit.html

1955 Rosa Parks http://www.princeton.edu/~bsu/didyouknow.htm

1955 Fred Shuttlesworth http://www.purdue.edu/UNS/newspix03/pix663.html

Rev. C. K. Steele, Sr. http://www.availablelightphoto.com/retrospective/

1955 http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/civilrights/cr-exhibit.html

1956 The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Reverend Glenn Smiley leave a city bus after a U.S. SupremeCourt ruling desegregated Montgomery Alabama buses. http://www.montgomeryboycott.com/bio_mlking.htm

1957 Central High School, Little Rock, Ark. http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/brown/brown-aftermath.html

1957 The Little Rock Nine http://www.africanamericans.com/DaisyBates.htm

1957 Daisy Bates was a witness and journalist at Little Rock and wrote a memoir, The Long Shadow of Little Rock. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daisy_Bates_(civil_rights_activist)

1957 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at a Washington DC civil rights prayer breakfast http://www.time.com/time/photoessays/2006/martin_luther_king/1.html

1960 A sit-in in Nashville. Led by Diane Nash, students filled the lunch counters in downtown Nashville. As quickly as they were arrested, another group sat down and took their place. http://www.visionaryproject.org/timeline/timeline_content/024a.html

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