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Civil Rights Movement
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Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
Court case decided that "seperate but equal" schooling was unconstitutional. What was seperate was "inherently unequal" -
US Supreme Court order desegregation of schools
All schools should be desegregated with deliberate speed. -
Murder of Emmett Till
Brutally murdered because he allegedly was flirting with a white female cashier. -
Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger on the bus
This sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott were blacks refused to ride any public transportation until they changed the rules. -
US Supreme Courts declared segregated buses in Montgomery and Alabama to be unconstitutional.
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Eisenhower sends army to ensure the integration of Little Rock's Central High School
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Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was formed
This group was inspired by the sit-ins in Greensboro, NC -
Martin Luther King Jr. is arrested in Birmingham, AL
Writes "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" -
Eugene "Bull" Conner uses Fire hoses and police dogs on young marchers in Birmingham
The nation was outraged. Birmingham campaign succeeds -
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
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Civil Rights Act of 1964 passes by Congress
Deemed unconstitutional to segregate any public place (i.e. hotels and movie theaters) -
"Bloody Sunday" in Selma, AL
600 people were attacked with billy clubs and tear gas while attempting to march to Montegomery for black suffarge. -
Lyndon B. Johnson signs Voting Rights Act
This made poll taxes unconstitutional. This give blacks (and poor whites a better chance to vote. -
Watts riot begins in Los Angles
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March Against Fear
March from Memphis, TN to Jackson, MS against racism.Term "Black Power" emerges. -
Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated
