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Dred Scott v. John F.A Sandford
Dred scott v. john f.a sandford was a legal case in which the supreme court ruled that the slave dred scott who resided in a free state and territory was not thereby entitled to his freedom -
Brown vs. Board of Education
five cases that helped end segregation in schools but many schools were still segregated -
Rosa Parks
She refused to give up her seat to a white man on a montgomery bus and was arrested for it -
Montgomery bus boycott
The montgomery bus boycott was a 13 month mass protest that ended with the supreme court ruling that segregation on public busses is unconstitutional. -
The Little rock nine
they were 9 students who were colored and went to an all white school because they see it that they should be able to go to the closest school to them -
Sit-Ins
The sit ins were to stop segregation and to get it to where coloreds were aloud to eat and sit where the whites did -
Martin Luther King Jr.
It was a public speech by the civil rights activist MLK Jr. during the march on washington for jobs and freedom -
JFK's Assassination
the president was assassinated while traveling through dallas texas in a presidential motorcade -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
this was signed into law by president johnson just a few hours after the house approved it -
Dr. Kings Assassination
MLK was killed by a sniper bullet while standing on a second floor balcony of his room at the lorraine motel in memphis tennessee
