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Civil Rights Act
The Civil Rights Act of 1866 is a piece of United States legislation that gave further rights to the freed slaves after the end of the American Civil War. -
Jim Crow Laws
The Jim Crow laws were state and local laws in the United States enacted between 1876 and 1965 -
Brown Vs. The Board of Education
On May 17, 1954 the United States Supreme Court, which overturned earlier rulings going back to Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896, by declaring that state laws that established separate public schools for black and white students denied black children equal educational opportunities. But eventually ruled to end segregation in the schools. -
Emmett Till
was brutally murdered -
Rosa Parks
refused to give up seat to a white man. later arrested -
"I Have A Dream" speech
Martin Luther King gave his world famous speech on the 28th of August, 1963. In front of 250,000 civil right supporters. -
Having our say
a book about two over a hundered year old sisters.
