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Desegregation of the military
Harry S.Truman abolished the racial discrimination in the United States Armed Forces and eventually led to the end of segregation in the services. -
Brown v Board of Education
The nine-year-old Linda Brown had to walk over a mile to the elementary school. This was about the segregation in the schoolsystem in America. -
Emmett Till
The 14-year old boy Emmett Till was murdered in Mississippi. After calling a white woman "Baby" her husband assassinated him. This happened 100 days before Rosa Parks Refused to give up her seat to a white man. -
Little Rock Nine
When nine black students attended the Little Rock Central High School and was arrested since the school was for only whites. -
The Freedom Riders
Whites and Blacks traveled from Washington D.S to the south in busses they called freedom buses. The goal was to desegregate the Jim Crows on travel systems. John F. Kenndy abolished all of them. -
The Strategy of Sit-Sit
Blacks sitting in restaurants where it's specifically for whites only. Staff refused to serve them and eventually they got arrested for doing nothing. -
I have a dream
Martin Luther King Jr has his famous speech " I have a dream" during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. -
Medgar Evers
Medgar Ever was an African-American civil rights activist who worked as the state's field secretary of the NAACP in Mississippi. He was assassinated in 1963. -
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
The Civil Rights Act of 1964, ended the segregation on public places and banned employment discrimination on the basis of race or color. -
Freedom Summer
A voter registration project in Mississippi. The goal was to get as many Blacks as many to vote. -
24th Amendment
This Amendment ended the practise of poll taxes in 1964. States and local governments could no longer charge citizens for the right to vote. -
Malcom X
Malcolm X was an African-American leader for human rights and a Muslim minister. He was assassinated in 1965. -
Rodney King Trial
Rodney King became known as a victim of Los Angeles Police Department. He was brutally abused by several police officers. -
Thurgood Marshall
He became the first black man appointed to the supreme court. -
The Assassination of Martin Luther Kind Jr
Luther was was known for his use of nonviolence and civil disobedience. But on april fourth 1968 he was assassinated in Tennessee. -
Boston Busing
This was the desegregation of public schools in Bosto through a system of busing students.
