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1961 Holmes v. Danner:
LDF wins admission to the University of Georgia for two African Aericans: Charlayn Hamilton Holmes.

1962 Meredith v. Fair:
James Meredity finally succeeds in becoming the first African-American students to be University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) through the efforts of a legal team led by LDF atto Baker Motley.

1963 LDF attorneys defend Martin Luther King, Jr. against contempt charges for den permit in Birmingham. Whilte in jail awaiting trial, King writes "Letter from A Birmingha become the civil rights manifesto.

1964 The Mississippi Freedom Summer:
A campaign by the Council of Federated Organizations attracts hundres of young pe country to Jackson, Mississippi, to establish freedom schools, register voters, integrat accommodations, and organize the black community to fight for better jobs, schools a Rights workers Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner and James Chaney are brutall officers in Philadelphia, Mississippi. LDF staff attorney Marian Wright opens an office handles more than 120 Freedom Summer-generated cases. She later becomes the f Children's Defense Fund.

1964 The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is passed by Congress. It bans discrimination in v accommodations, schools and employment.

1965 Williams v. Wallace:
After civil rights activists make two unsuccessful attempts to march from Selma to Mo attorneys draft a parade plan and win a court order allowing Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr a gfive-day march. When the demonstrators reach Montgomery, they present a petition rights to Govenor George Wallace.

1965 Hamm v. City of Rock Hill:
The Supreme Court holds that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 voids convictions of all sit-i

1965 Abernathy v. Alabama; Thomas v. Mississippi:
The Supreme Court reverses convictions of Alabama and Mississippi Freedom Riders Boynton v. Virginia, a 1960 Supreme Court ruling won by LDF that prohibited discrimi bus stop restaurants.

1965 The Boting Rights Act is passed by Congress.

1967 Thurgood Marshall is appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court, becoming the first sit on the bench.

1968 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is assassinated.

1968 The Fair Housing Act is passed by Congress, prohibiting discrimination in the s housing.

1968 LDF provides legal support for the Poor People's Campaigns in Washington, D.C.

1968 Green v. County School Board of New Kent County (Virginia):
The Supreme Court holds that "freedom of choice" plans were ineffective at producing desegregation and had to be replaced with more effective strategies.

1970 Turner v. Fouche:
The Supreme Court holds unconstitutional Taliaferro County's (Georgia) requirement

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