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Brown vs. The Board of Education
The people involve in this case were Oliver Brown, 12 parents, and the Board of Education in Topeka Kansas. The reason for the case was that Brown and the Parents wanted to challenge the "separate but equal" law because it was not true in the fact that white schools had a separate education. The result was the Supreme Court ruled out separated school. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
The Montgomery Bus Boycott , started in December 5, 1955, was a civil-rights protest during which African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery, Alabama. The purpose was to protest segregated seating and is regarded as the first large-scale U.S. demonstration against segregation. Rose Parks, as African-american woman, was arrested and fined for refusing to yield her bus seat to a white man. This event led the supreme court to integrate its bus system. -
Little Rock Nine
Nine African american students who were not allowed to attend all white school but managed to attend. later in the first month of school they were escorted out of school by federal troops. 1954 Supreme Court ruling that declared segregation in public schools unconstitutional. -
Sit-Ins
The group involved in this protest were 4 African Americans college students from North Carolina. The story of it is, the students politely asked for service in which they refused and were asked to leave. They refused to leave because of the injustice and this sparked sit-ins in North Carolina in protest to segregation. This lead to the chain removing its segregation policies. -
Freedom Riders
Freedom riders were a group of African Americans and white civil right activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States in 1961. Their nonviolence ride puts pressure on President Kennedy to end the violence. -
Birmingham Demonstrations
The Birmingham Demonstrations were a series of campaigns launched to integrate the black society into Birmingham. The demonstration were met with violent attacks in which the protesters were attacked by police, dogs, and fire hoses. The movements results were that the president at the time finally addressed the problem and helped push for Civil rights which helped the movements even further. -
March On Washington
The purpose for the March's were for freedom and jobs. They occurred in Washington B.C. and held by civil rights leaders to protest for rights and against segregation. This pressured Kennedy to issue a civil rights bill.
