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Jim Crow law
History, any of the laws that enforced racial segregation in the south between the end of reconstruction in 1877 an the beginning of the civil rights movement in the 1950. -
Brown vs. board of education
Was a landmark united states supreme court case in which the court declared state law. -
Rosa Parks and the Montgomery bus boycott
Rosa Parks rode at the front of the Montgomery, alabama bus on the day the supreme court's ban on segregation of the city's buses took effort. -
Desegregating little rock
The little rock nine were group of nine black students who enrolled at formerly all white central high school in little rock, arkansas in september 1957 -
Greensboro
The Greensboro sit-ins were a series of nonviolent protest in Greensboro. North Carolina, in 1960, which led to the wool worth department store chain removing its policy of racial segregation the southern united states. -
Freedom rides
Were groups of whites and African american civil rights activists who participated in freedom rides, bus trips through the american south in 1961 to protest segregated bus thermals -
Kennedy Assassination
While riding in motorcade through Dallas Texas, President John F. Kennedy is shot and killed. Vice president Lyndon B Johnson. -
Voting Act of 1965
When President Johnson signed the voting rights act in law on august 6,1965 he looks the civil right act of 1964 several steps further.
