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Plessy v Ferguson
It was a 1896 that was held in the U.S. Supreme Court. It was about a African-American train passenger named Homer Plessy and he refused to sit in a Jim Crow car, which was breaking a Louisiana law.
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Jackie Robinson
Jackie Robinson was a famous baseball player for the Los Angeles Dodgers. He was the first African American to play in the major leagues during his time.
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Medgar Evers
years old when Medgar Evers was assassinated on June 12th, 1963. He was killed by Bryon De La Beckwith. After his death His wife Mylie swore to get Justice for the deed. He was a dedicated to ending degregation in Schools and fighting for Civil Rights for Afican Americans.
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James Meredith
James Meredith served in the U.S. Air Force from 1951 to 1960. After he was done with the Air Force he then attended Jackson State College in Mississippi. He was inspired by President JFK inaugural address. Then he tried to applie to an all white University of Mississippi after his application was denied, she sued the Unversity with legal help from the NAACP.
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The Congress of Racial Equality
It was started as a decentralized organization funded entirely by the voluntary contributions of its members. In 1942 Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) began protests against segregation in public accommodations.
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Sweatt v Painter
This trial started when an African-American named Heman Sweatt applied for admission to the University of Texas School of Law, but he was rejected because he was black. The court evem went to the U.S. Supreme Court. The outcome of the tiral is that Sweatt would be admitted to the school.
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Brown v Board of Education
The court was that public schools should have white and black people in schools. The Brown case served as a good step for the modern civil rights movement.
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Montgomery bus boycott
The person who organized the Montgomery bus boycott was Matin Luther King Jr. It began as a chain reaction of similar boycotts thoughout the South. In 1956, the Supreme Court voted to end segregated busing.
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The Southern Manifesto
It was a declaration of Constitutional Principles. It was a resolution to the 1954 Supreme Court decision in the Brown v. Board of Education. It was a clear abuse of judicial power and encourage states to resist implementing its mandates.
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Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
Its was mad eto advance the cause of civill right in America but in a non-violent manner. From its inception in 1957, its president was Martin Luther King Jr. He was the post untill the day he was murdered in 1968.
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Little Rock - Central High School
Little Rock Central High School is recognized for the role it played in the desegregation of public schools in the United States. Their was nine African Americans that was at the school and the school was a formerly an all-white Central High School, but not after the May 17, 1954 Supreme Court decision of the Brown v. Board of Education trial.
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Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
It was formed to give young African American more of a voice in the civil rights movement, it became one of the movement's more radical branches.
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Freedom Rides
It was a series of bus trips through the American South to protest seregation in interstate bus terminals. The Freedom Riders were recruitied by the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). African-American Freedom Riders tried to use whites-only restrooms and lunch counters, and vice versa.
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Letter from Birmingham Jail
In the letters from Birmingham Jail Martin Luther King, Jr. was in Jail their when it was going on. He was imprisoned as a participant in the nonviolent demonstations against segregation. It was a letter from Martin Luther King Jr. It was a note for all Arican Americans
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Marching on Washington
It was when 200,000 Americans all gathering up at Washington D.C. for a political rally know as the March on Washington. The march was for more jobs and more freedom for African Americans.
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Bombing of Birmingham Church
It was when their was a bomb explosion at the 16th Street Baptist Church. The racially motivated attck killed four young girls. The group of people that was involved in this act were all in the KKK. A group of people that hate African Americans.
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Civil Rights Act passed
It was about when segregation ended in public places and banned employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national orgin.
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Mississsippi Freedom Summer
This event was mostly aimed at dramatically increasing voter registration in Mississippi. The KKK, police and even state and local authorites carried out a systematic series of violent attacks
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Twenty-fourth Amendment
It was a prohibited that the federal and state governments from imposing poll taxes before a citizen can participate in a federal election.
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Selma to Montgomery march
This march was when protesters were attemting to march from Selma to the state capital of Montgomery were met with violent resistance by state and local authorities. At the end they did reach their goal and a lot of the world was watching it.
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Malcolm X assassination
malcolm X, an African American nationalist and religious leader was assassinated by a rival Black Muslims while addressing his Organization of Afro-AMerican Unity at the Audubon Ballrom in Washington Heights.
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Voting rights act approved
This act was singed into law by President Lyndon Johnson on Augudt 6, 1965 it was aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to cote under the 15th Amendment.
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Black Panther
On October 1966 they said this What We Want What We Believe We want freedom. We want power to determin the destiny of our Black Community. They also wanted full emplyment ofr their people. They also wanted an end to the robbery by the white man of their Black Community.
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King assassination
He was assasinated on April 4, 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee. He was a Baptist minister ad founder of the Southern Christian Ledership Conference. He was assassinated by a KKK member
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Greensboro sit-in
Its a non-violent protest by young African American students at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina. The protest did make people get arrested for trespassing, disorderly conduct or disturbing the peace.
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