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1958
Rosa Parks Little Rock Nine
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Civil Rights - 1959 Benjamin O. Davis Jr becomes the first black gen-major in USAFWilliam Wright becomes the first black to win a major golf tournament "Raisin in the Sun," the first Broadway play by a black woman, Lorraine Hansberry, opens at the Barrymore Theater in New York. Citizens of Deerfield Ill block building of interracial housing |
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