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Brown vs. Board of Education Topeka
A United States Supreme Court case which lead to African Americans with the right to attend school with white students. -
Death of Emmet Till
14 year old Emmet Till was brutally murdered after reportedly flirting with a white woman. This spread white sympathy across the United States. Thousands attended his funeral and sowed support. -
Rosa Parks and the bus boycott
A 55 year old woman by the name of Rosa park was arrested for refusing to surrender her seat to a white person. This impotant because it shows that the is unequal right even in transportation. -
The Formation of SCLC
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference was a African-American civil rights orginization. They were closely associated with its first president Martin Luther King Jr. Their role was to help the civil rights movement. -
Central High School Integration
9 black students were enrolled in Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. They were the first because it was an all white school until that was considered to be unconstitutional. -
Greensboro, North Carolina Woolworth's sit-in
Four students from the North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University sat down at the lunch counter inside the Woolworth's store and ordered coffee. Following store policy, the lunch counter staff refused to serve the African American men at the "whites only" counter and the store's manager asked them to leave. -
Freedom Riders
Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States. There were 7 blacks and ^ whites that were involved and they were all aressted. -
James Meredith, University of Mississippi
In 1962, James Meredith was the first African American student admitted to the segregated University of Mississippi. His goal was to gain attention to enforce civil rights for African Americans. -
Birmingham Alabama protests.
The Birmingham campaign was a movement organized by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to bring attention to the unequal treatment that blacks faced in Birmingham. -
Martin Luther King arrested, "Letter from Birmingham jail"
The letter defends the strategy of nonviolent resistance to racism, arguing that people have a moral responsibility to break unjust laws. After an early setback, it enjoyed widespread publication and became a key text for the American civil rights movement of the early 1960s. -
24th Amendment
Everyone has the right to vote -
Malcolm X assassination
In New York City by a Muslim Minister in disguise -
Martin Luther King assassnation
At 6:01 p.m. on April 4, 1968, civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was hit by a sniper's bullet
