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Thurgood Marshall was a courageous civil rights lawyer, Marshall astutely realized that one of the best ways to bring about change was through the legal system. 1938 and 1961, he presented more than 30 civil rights cases before the Supreme Court. He won 29 of them. -
Brown v. Board of Education
It was a doctrine that the Supream Court passed where it allowed "seprate but equal". Public facilities, including public school were separated. -
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Rosa Parks was another person that inspired people to act against segregation and fight for the civil rights.By refusing to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama, city bus in 1955 was aressted. -
Murder of Emmitt Till
14 year old, African American Emmitt Till was brutaly murdered when he was visiting his family in Mississippi, from Chicago. He was acused of flirting witha white woman, the murderers were the womans hustband and her brother. -
9 brave ones
Nine black students are blocked from entering the school. Governor Orval Faubus. President Eisenhower sends federal troops and the National Guard to intervene on behalf of the students. -
SNCC
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) is founded at Shaw University, providing young blacks with a place in the civil rights movement. The SNCC later grows into a more radical organization. -
Freedom Riders
Several of the groups of "freedom riders," as they are called, are attacked by angry mobs along the way to test out new laws that prohibit segregation in interstate travel facilities, which includes bus and railway stations. -
Martin Luther King Jr. arrested
Martin Luther King is arrested and jailed during anti-segregation protests in Birmingham, Ala. -
Voting Rights Act
Congress passes the Voting Rights Act of 1965, making it easier for Southern blacks to register to vote. Literacy tests, poll taxes, and other such requirements that were used to restrict black voting are made illegal. -
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Martin Luther King jr. 1929-1968 inspired people to events such as the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the March on Washington with his speech. the events he inspired were a big importance to the civil rights movement. -
Civil Rights 1968
President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968, prohibiting discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of housing. -
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President Bush signs
After two years of debates, vetoes, and threatened vetoes, President Bush reverses himself and signs the Civil Rights Act of 1991, strengthening existing civil rights laws and providing for damages in cases of intentional employment discrimination. -
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murder case
Emmett Till's 1955 murder case, reopened by the Department of Justice in 2004, is officially closed. The two confessed murderers, J. W. Milam and Roy Bryant, were dead of cancer by 1994, and prosecutors lacked sufficient evidence to pursue further convictions. -
Kennedy Introduces
Senator Edward Kennedy introduces the Civil Rights Act of 2008. Some of the proposed provisions include ensuring that federal funds are not used to subsidize discrimination, holding employers accountable for age discrimination, and improving accountability for other violations of civil rights and workers' rights.
