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In the early 1960s civil rights activists put the ban on segregation to the test. In 1961, "Freedom riders," boarded buses headed south to test the federal ban on segregated travel. And in 1962, the University of Mississippi was ordered to integrate their facilities and admit James Meredith, an African American student. Both of these incidents sparked tremendous violence and debate and ushered in a new era in the modern civil rights movement.
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