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1959 BCE
MLK visits India
Martin Luther King visited India with his family. When he left, years later they found a recording he made about his non-violent social act -
1958 BCE
Cooper v. Aaron
Held that the states are bound by the Court's decisions and must enforce them even if the states disagreed with them. -
Brown v, Board
Over one-third of states segregated their schools by law. -
Murder of Emmet Till
He was flirting with a white woman and got murdered -
Montgomery bus boycott
It was apart of the civil rights movement that started so that people could have to freedom to sit wherever on busses and trains -
Founding of SCLC
The leaders created this group and it was rated after the Montgomery bus boycott -
Integration of Little Rock, AK
It was nine African American who were able to go to a white school. This was a interesting time -
Civil rights act
A voting rights bill was the federal civil rights legislation passed by the United States.