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Brown v. Board of education
Naacp combines 5 races from Kansas southfortno Virginia Delaware and Washington DC to Supreme Court. The court decides 9-0 that separate but equal is wrong. However many of these black students will never go to school with white students. -
Murder of Emmett till
Accused of whistling at white woman. 3 days later Roy Bryant and others kidnapped eye detached ear cut off bar wire wrapped around his neck weighted down by 75pounds cottening far thrown into water. -
Rosa parks and the bus boycott
Rosa is arrested for failing to move seats on the bus. She is fired 10$. Miks Jr and church set out flyers to boycott the bus system on Dec 5 the buses ran empty for 381 days. Supreme Court ruled bus had to let black ride. -
Southern Christian leadership conference
A meeting of black church pastors to coordinate events for black people. MLK was elected the 1st president. This group used a nonviolent strategy. This group also registered blacks to vote opposed victim war and provided better jobs for blacks. -
Little Rock 9
9students wanted to go to the white school. The governor of Arkansas call out the national found to stop them. President Eisenhower calls in 1,200 military men to escrit these students from home to class 1959 all schools fully integrated . -
Greensboro sit ins
Go to wodworths buy items. Then go sit at the lunchroom. They are refused service and told to leave but they stayed. Day after day they come back and did the same thing. The amount of students grew over the days to 1,000 -
Freedom riders
A diverse group of volunteers from 39 states most were college students. Arrived in Anniston Alabama blocked by KKK. Tires slashed fire boomed buses and blasting town after town. -
March on Washington
250,000 people marched in Washington D.C. it was peaceful and respectful protest for jobs and freedom. Martin Luther king gave his I have a dream speech. MLK was the lost speaker of the day. -
Civil rights act 1964
Enabled federal government to prevent racial discrimination and segregation based on race ,color, religion or national origin in provide business or public facilities. -
Assassination of Malcom X
Civil rights leader who was parts of the Nation of Islam. He wanted black people to believe in themselves and start their own businesses. He was shot 21 times. Thomas hagan convicted of killing. -
Selma to Montgomery marches
Black marches wanted to walk 54 miles to Montgomery to register to vote. At the Edmond bridge troopers brutally beat them. -
Voting rights act 1965
Enabling the right to vote of African American any discrimination in voting new a federal matter not state. -
Assassaination of Martin Luther king
Stinking sanitation workers protest in Memphis. Went back to the motel. Shot lower right side of his face with remmigten rifle. James early sentenced to 90 years. His deaths marks civil rights.