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Brown vs. Board of Education
A Supreme Court case in which the justices ruled unanimously that racial segregation of children in public schools . -
Emmett Till Murder
a 14-year old African American boy, was murdered -
Rosa Parks & the Montgomery Bus Boycott
A boycott that started Rosa Parks & the Montgomery Bus Boycott to segregation -
The Little Rock Nine and Integration
a group of 9 black students went to a only whites school &
the first african american students -
Greensboro Woolworth's Sit-ins
an african american student went to a lunch counter in greensboro
and they wouldn't serve her so she refused to leave -
Freedom Rides
Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated Southern United States in 1961 . -
MLK’s Letter From Birmingham Jail
a letter wrote by MLK in jail because criticism -
March on Washington
On 28 August 1963, more than 200,000 demonstrators took part in the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in the nation's capital -
Birmingham Baptist Church Bombing
an explosion at a church that killed four girls and injured between 14 and 22 other people. -
24th Amendment
the 24th Amendment, outlawing the poll tax as a voting requirement in federal elections -
civil rights act 1964
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex -
Bloody Sunday”/Selma to Montgomery March
600 civil rights marchers headed east out of Selma -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
It outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War -
Loving v. Virginia
equal protection and due process clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment.