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Brown vs. Board of Education
1954 Supreme Court case in which racial segregation in public schools was outlawed. Linda Brown was a young black girl in the case of Brown vs. Board of Education. Her father was reverend Oliver Brown of Kansas, Topeka. Oliver Brown fought for Linda's rights to go to a white school. Linda had to walk a mile to get to her all black school before the brown v. Board of Education case was admitted. -
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Montgomery Bus Boycott
Protest in 1955–1956 by African Americans against racial segregation in the bus system of Montgomery, Alabama. -
Freedom Rides
In 1961 CORE undertook a new tactic aimed at desegregating public transportation throughout the south. These tactics became know as the "Freedom Rides". The first Freedom Ride took place on May 4, 1961 when seven blacks and six whites left Washington, D.C., on two public buses bound for the Deep South. They intended to test the Supreme Court's ruling in Boynton v. Virginia, which declared segregation in interstate bus and rail stations unconstitutional. -
Birmingham Children's March
was a strategic movement organized by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) to bring attention to the unequal treatment black Americans endured in Birmingham, Alabama. -
Woolworth's Sit- In
In, Jackson Mississippi, this was the most violently attacked sit-in of the '60s and the most publicized. -
March on Washington
The March on Washington took place in Washington D.C, and involved over 250,000 people. It contained a wide variety of civil rights organizations all fighting for major segregation issues. It was the largest demonstration ever seen at the nation's capitol. -
Selma To Montgomery March
On March 7,1965, also referred to as "Bloody Sunday," around six hundred civil rights marchers began a march starting at Selma, Alabama for fair voting rights . But, their march was violently cut short when state officialsbegan to attack them with clubs driving them back to Selma. After seeking protection from the court, civil rights leaders were able to get the march to actually happen and on March 21, thousands began the march again and this time made it four days later.
