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Brown vs Board of Education
Supreme Court ruling that made segregation legal in public schools. -
Emmett Til Murder
Emmett Til 14-year-old african american boy from Chicago, was brutally murdered for allegedly flirting with a white woman four days earlier. -
Rosa Parks & the Montgomery Bus Boycott
The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a civil rights protest during which African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery, Alabama, to protest segregated seating. -
The Little Rock Nine and Integration
The desegregation of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, gained national attention on September 3, 1957, when Governor Orval Faubus mobilized the Arkansas National Guard in an effort to prevent nine African American students from integrating the high school. -
Greensboro Woolworth's Sit-ins
Greensboro Woolworth's Sit-ins was a critical turning point in Black history and American history, bringing the fight for civil rights to the national stage. Its use of nonviolence inspired the Freedom Riders and others to take up the cause of integration in the South, furthering the cause of equal rights in the United States. -
Freedom Rides
freedom rides were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into segregated southern united states -
MLK's Letter from Birmingham Jail
an open letter written by Martin Luther King Jr -
March on Washington
A huge march held in Washington DC , to advocate for the civil and economic rights of African Americans -
Birmingham Baptist Church Bombing
a white supremacist terrorist bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham , Alabama -
24th Amendment
prohibits any poll tax in elections for federal officials -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
prohibits discrimination on the basis of race , color , religion , sex , or national origin -
" Bloody Sunday " / Selma to Montgomery March
three protest marches , along the 54-mile highway from Selma , Alabama , to the state capital of Montgomery -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
a landmark piece of federal legislation in the United States that prohibits racial discrimination in voting . -
Loving v. Virginia
a landmark civil rights decision of the U.S. Supreme court in which the court ruled that laws banning interracial marriage violate the Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment