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Brown v. Board of Education
The Supreme Court rules that segregation in public schools is unconstitutional.that gave an opportunity to young black people to go to school. -
The Montgomery Bus Boycott
the blacks people of Montgomery, Alabama, decided that they would boycott the city buses until they could sit anywhere they wanted, instead of being in the back when a white boarded. this wa important because after that the suprem court rulled that their is no more bus segregation. -
the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Martin Luther King establish the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, of whichDr. King is made the first president. This organization started the idea of nonviolent movement. -
North Carolina lunch counter protest
from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College begin a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter.To protest against the segregation of lunch counters between white and blck peope, and that was successful Six months later the original four protesters are served lunch at the same Woolworth's counter. -
freedom rides
student volunteers begin taking bus trips through the South to test out new laws that prohibit segregation in buses. important event in the civil movement because it showed how much did the black people suffer in the deep south -
march to washington
About 200,000 people join the March on Washington. Congregating at the Lincoln Memorial, participants listen as Martin Luther King delivers his famous "I Have a Dream" speech ,Dr. King gave his famous speech to keep the people spairt up and to strenth the idea of the nonviolent protest. -
three civil-rights workers
The bodies of three civil-rights workers—two white, one black—was found in an earthen dam, after six weeks into a federal investigation. James E. Chaney, 21; Andrew Goodman, 21; and Michael Schwerner, 24, one of the most famous murder cases in the civil movement , because the three young men were killed by the police because they demanded a rights for black people. -
(Harlem, N.Y.) Malcolm X
The leader of the nation of islam organisation, malcom x has adiffrent idea than doctor king he belived that black people should band the nonviolent movement. -
Black Panthers
U.S. African-American militant party, founded in Oakland, Calif., by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale. Originally espousing violent revolution as the only means of achieving black liberation, this party has the opposite idea that Dr.king have, they encourage violent in oreder to justify and protect themselves. -
The assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Martin Luther King, at age 39, is shot as he stands on the balcony outside his hotel room.The most sadest and davisted moments, the great leader was killed by a whiteracist James Earl Ray.
