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Brown vs Board of Education
The Supreme Court ruled that separating children in public schools on the basis of race was unconstitutional.
It was important because it turn the point in the history of race relations. -
Emmett Till Murder
Emmett was a 14-year-old African American who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955, after being accused of offending a white woman in her family's grocery store. -
Rosa Parks & the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Rosa Parks refused to give her seat to a white passenger on a city bus in the was against the law. -
The Little Rock Nine and Integration
The Little Rock Nine was a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. -
Greensboro Woolworth's Sit-ins
they were protest in front of the Woolworth Department Store chain ending its policy of racial segregation in its stores in the southern United States. -
Freedom Rides
They encountered violence for the first time at the bus terminal in Rock Hill, South Carolina when several young white males beat black riders for attempted to use a whites only restroom -
MLK’s Letter From Birmingham Jail
a moral responsibility to break unjust laws and to take direct action rather than waiting potentially forever for justice to come through the courts. -
March on Washington
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
A bomb went of it the church it kill 3 little girls and destory the place down and never find who did it. -
24th Amendment
the House passed the 24th Amendment, outlawing the poll tax as a voting requirement in federal elections, by a vote of 295 to 86 -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin -
“Bloody Sunday”/Selma to Montgomery March
some 600 civil rights marchers headed east out of Selma on U.S. Route 80. They got only as far as the Edmund Pettus Bridge six blocks away. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
It outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War, including literacy tests as a prerequisite to voting. -
Loving v. Virginia
struck down state antimiscegenation statutes in Virginia as unconstitutional under the equal protection and due process clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment.
