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Brown Vs Board of Education
- Supreme Court Case to end segregation -unanimous, for equal protection under the 14th. Amendment -After the decision vidente and riots broke out, with some schools closing
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Emmet Till
-14 year old from Chicago, visiting family in Mississippi
-Accused of whistling at a white girl
-Two grown men kidnap, beat up, shot, and killed Emmet
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Rosa Parks
Dec 1, 1955; Parks refuses to move seats and is arrested
Dec 5, 1955; Bus Boycott begins and lasts 381 days
MLK is the emerged as leader of boycott
1st large scale demonstration of non-violence in US -
SCLC
Testing Brown V Board of Education decision. 9 students were vetted to undergo this test. Airborn 101 escorted students to class. The following years all public schools. (1958). On August 29, 1959 schools reopened. -
Little Rock 9
- 9 students voted to undergo tests
- testing Brown Vs Board of Education decision -Airborn 101 escorted students
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Greensboro
4 college students sat down at a lunch counter at woodwsworth to be served. They were refused service. Continued to “sit in” and others joined the protest served to other towns forced chase. -
Students Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and Freedom
Youth group of students remained firefly independently of MLK and SCLC, generating their own projects and strategies. The two organizations worked side by side throughout the early years if the civil rights movement. This group was the second hard I’d the Freedom riders and were part of the march to Selma. -
Freedom Riders
2 week bus trip to the Del South to deliberately violate J.C.L. The busses were burned and riders beaten by KKK. On November, 1961white and colored signs are removed from bus stations. -
March On Washington
Freedom and jobs was to advocate Economic and Civil Rights. More than 200,000 people were at the attendance of the Lincoln Memorial. MLK being the last to speak. Having his famous “I have a dream” speech, majority of the marchers being African American. Helped pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
The act can not be refused for service. It forbids employers and labor unions to discriminate against any any person or grounds of race, color, religion, sex, physical disability or age in a job related matters. -
March on Selma/ Bloody Sunday
600 students March from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama to get the right ti vote. They walked 54 miles and were stopped at the bridge. They were seen on national tv. LBJ ordered the passage of 1965 voting rights law. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
One of the most comprehensive pieces of legislation in US History. Blacks were registered to vote and being elected to public office.