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Brown vs. Board of Education
Banned public school segregation -
Emmett Till Murder
Emmet Till was murdered by a few people because she winked at a white person. How preposterous. -
Rosa Parks arrested
Rosa Parks didn't get up when the bus driver told her to. I wonder how different of a story it would've been if the white person was ok with her staying there. -
Little Rock Nine
Police were doing something here on this date, saying that blacks and whites shouldn't be in the same school/facility. -
Greensboro Woolworth's Sit-ins
In a nutshell, black people sat at white-only places, like bars and such; Even though the blacks were being nonviolent, the whites were quick to switch to violence, for whatever reason. -
Freedom Ride(r)s
Blacks also sat with Whites on bus rides, as well as the Sit-ins. -
March on Washington
Many people had marched. On Washington. Mainly for the purpose of race equality. -
Birmingham Church Bombing
Forget what this is for, so I'll make a less-than-tasteless joke:
Still not as effective as the 9/11 bombing. :^) -
Letter from Birmingham Jail
Martin Luther King Jr. wrote this. Of course, in a Birmingham jail cell. -
The 24th Amendment
The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President for electors for President or Vice President, or for Senator or Representative in Congress, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State by reason of failure to pay any poll tax or other tax. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Sworn into law on the date that it says it is. It gave more people the right(s) to Vote. -
Loving V. Virginia
Unanimous decision; Struck down more segregation (and therefore racism) -
Bloody Sunday
Pacifictic people turn into killers when British troops open fire. (Understandable though, it's almost as if you were about to be killed!