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Plessy v Ferguson
The Supreme Court rules in favor of the "Separate but Equal" law. The deemed that it wasn't interfering with the Fourteenth Amendment -
Brown v Board of Education of Topeka
The Father of Linda Brown goes to court claiming that Jim Crow laws are denying his daughter her rights. Segregation was struck down in schools -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Boycott on segregated buses -
Little Rock School Intergration
Arkansas becomes the first state to admit blacks without a court order -
Sit-Ins
North Carolina Agri & Tech College staged a sit-in at a whites only lunch counter -
Freedom Riders
People like James Peck who took a trip across the south in order to show the Kennedy administration how bad it was -
March on Birmingam
Thousand plus demonstrators march on Birmingham and the local police force was dispatched to stop them though it was peaceful -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
This Act prohibited discrimination of race,gender,religion, national origin -
The voting Act of 1965
An Act put up to allow Blacks to vote -
March From Selma to Montgomery for voting rights
25,000 demonstaitors march on Montgomery for equal rights