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Brown vs Board of Education
Court case that challenged school segregation laws brought by the NAACP -
Bus Boycott
African Americans stopped taking public buses that were segregated due to Rosa Park's arrest. -
Little rock nine
9 African American students would go into a public school with that was previously segregated for the first time in American History. -
Crisis in Little Rock
Federal Judge ordered desegregation in Arkansas, people were very angry about the order given. -
March on Washington
250,000 people march upon Washington D.C. including celebrities, politicians, and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. -
Sixteenth Street Baptist Church Bombings
The Ku Klux Klan bombed a Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, killing four girls, The bombing shocked the nation. -
Civil rights act of 1964
Stopped literacy tests that were being given to African Americans to "test" them to be elligible to vote. -
Malcolm X's Assassination
Malcolm X, a civil rights leader was assassinated by a member of his islam community. -
Bloody Sunday
African Americans were marching over the Edmund Pettus Bridge when they encountered police officers who ended up becoming violent and many were injured. -
Dr. King's Assassination
Dr. King was shot to death in Memphis, Tennessee
