By early 1965 a new black leader had arose, whose name was Malcolm X. ... He started a militant, all black group called the Black Panthers. ... That same year, James Meridith, a black college student, enters the University of Mississippi as the first black person to enter the college after he was rejected three times because of the color of his skin. ... The Black Panther Party is formed in 1966 by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale. Thurgood Marshall was the first black to be nominated for the Supreme Court in 1967. ...

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