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Basketball great Wilt Chamberlain scores 100 points in a single NBA game, setting a record that still stands.
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African American radical Malcolm X becomes national minister of the Nation of Islam. He rejects the nonviolent civil-rights movement and integration, and becomes a champion of African American separatism and black pride. At one point he states that equal rights should be secured "by any means necessary," a position he later revises.
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Four African American girls are killed in the bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama.
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Sidney Poitier becomes the first black actor to win an Oscar for Best Actor, for his role in Lilies of the Field.
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The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), CORE and the NAACP and other civil-rights groups organize a massive African American voter registration drive in Mississippi known as "Freedom Summer." Three CORE civil rights workers are murdered. In the five years following Freedom Summer, black voter registration in Mississippi will rise from a mere 7 percent to 67 percent.
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Romare Bearden, considered perhaps the greatest modern African American artist, completes his African American -themed collage series "Projections."
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President Lyndon Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act, which gives the federal government far-reaching powers to prosecute discrimination in employment, voting, and education.
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Martin Luther King, Jr. is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
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