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1949 |
Citizens Committee Against Police Brutality is established. |
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1950 |
NAACP holds its national convention in Boston |
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1951 |
Martin Luther King Jr. lives in a rooming house at 170 Saint Botolph Street. |
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02/29/1952 |
Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott have their first (blind) date. |
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1953 |
Boston Branch NAACP persuades a Framingham restaurant to hire a black waiter. |
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1953 |
Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King live at 396 Northampton Street. |
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06/05/1955 |
Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. receives a Ph.D. from the Boston University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. |
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12/01/1955 |
Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat to a white man on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. |
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12/15/1955 |
Greater Boston Civil rights Rally is held. |
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11/13/1956 |
Supreme Court strikes down laws allowing segregation on city and state buses. |
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