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Plessy vs Ferguson
Were they came up with the segregation law separate but equal. -
Formation of NAACP
an Organization that fought for civil rights for african americans -
M.L.K i have a dream
The greatest black rights speaker in the world he made the most remembered quote. I HAVE A DREAM. it was a speech made at the march on washington -
Congress of racial equality
c.o.r.e is a organization for racial equality. -
Segregation in army
President truman desegregates the army -
Brown V Board of education
This is about brown trying to show how segregating schools is unconstitutional and wrong -
Emmit till
Emmit till was a young boy that was beaten to death because of to men that thought he was hitting on his white wife. -
Montgomery bus boycott
This started because of rosa parks getting arrested for sitting in a white bus but Martin Luther King jr started the bus boycott to be able to have no segregation on buses. -
Southern Christian Leadership Conference is formed
it is a orginization of civil rights -
Little Rock Nine
In 1958 the congess decided it was unconstetutional to segregate schools. so they had nine studants that were collord to go to little rock nine school distrects -
Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee is formed
it is a group for civil rights of African Americans to desegregate everything . -
The strategy of sit ins
the strategy was to just sit in a restaurant and wate till they get served -
Malcom X
Malcolm x started to rule Islam to make black Muslims but he was soon assassinated by the neighboring country. -
The Freedom Riders
The freedom riders were a group of people in a bus that drove around the south trying to change peoples mind about segregation. -
Civil Rights Act Of 1964
Outlawed discrimination agenst peoples race, religion, color or sex. -
Freedom Summer
It was a plan to get African Americans to vote in Mississippi. -
Voting rights act of 1965
Aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from voiting -
M.L.K Assassination
M.l.k was assonated at a motel in Tennessee . -
Boston Busing
under court control there was desegregation in Boston schools -
Race riots in Watts
took place in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles from August were people rioted becuse they blamed things on police racisolisom -
Rodney King Trial
Rodney was almost beaten to death by three police officers .
