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key
🏆 achievement
✊protest
⚖️supreme court case/law -
Sweatt v. Painter ⚖️
overturn the separate but equal doctrine in public education by requiring graduate and professional schools to admit black students. -
Creation of the Montgomery Improvement Association ✊
Alabama as a grassroots movement to fight for civil rights for African Americans and specifically for the desegregation of the buses in Alabama's capitol city. -
Emmit tills murder ✊
two Mississippians bludgeon and kill Emmett Till, a 14-year-old black boy, for whistling at a white woman; their acquittal and boasting of the atrocity spur the civil rights cause. -
Creation of the Montgomery Improvement Association ✊
the movement to fight for civil rights for African Americans and specifically for the desegregation of the buses in Alabama's capitol city. -
Founding of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference ⚖️
when sixty black ministers and civil rights leaders met in Atlanta, Georgia in an effort to replicate the successful strategy and tactics of the recently concluded Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott. -
Greensboro sit-ins ✊
young African American students staged a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, and refused to leave after being denied service -
Albany campaign ✊
aimed to end all forms of racial segregation in the city, focusing initially on desegregating travel facilities, forming a permanent biracial committee to discuss further desegregation, and the release of those jailed in segregation protests. -
Integration of the University of Mississippi ✊
riots erupted on the campus of the University of Mississippi in Oxford where locals, students, and committed segregationists had gathered to protest the enrollment of James Meredith, a black Air Force veteran attempting to integrate the all-white school. -
Birmingham Movement ⚖️
bombings targeted African-American leaders of the Birmingham campaign but ended in the murder of three adolescent girls. -
The assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
His assassination led to an outpouring of anger among Black Americans, as well as a period of national mourning that helped speed the way for an equal housing bill that would be the last significant legislative achievement of the civil rights -
Swann vs. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools
The Fourteenth Amendment permits the systematic use of buses to convey children of different races across district lines to further the goal of integrating public schools -
Hank Aaron’s Home Run Record
Atlanta Braves star Hank Aaron hit his 715th career home run off Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Al Downing to break the revered record held by Babe Ruth -
Equality act
discrimination on account of sex, marital status or sexual orientation in places of public accommodation, and under color of State law. -
Barbara Jordan’s Address at the Democratic National Convention
A Democrat, she was the first African American elected to the Texas Senate after Reconstruction and the first Southern African-American woman elected to the United States House of Representatives. -
Muhammad Ali
retired as champion, the first man to win the overweight championship three times