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Brown v. Board of Education
The NAACP brought 5 to the Supreme Court to overturn the separate but equal doctrine. The judges rule 9-0 to over turn the doctrine. Most Blacks still did not get to go to school. -
Murder of Emmett Till
Accused of whistling at white woman. Then three days later Roy Bryant and other fellows kidnapped, eye detached, ear cut off, bar wire rapped around his neck; he was tortured for a while after that they they put a 75 pound cotton gin fan around him and threw him into a lake for no one to find him. -
Rosa Parks
Rosa parks was arrested for failing to move seats on the bus. She was fined with a $10 fee. MLK Jr and church sent out flyers to boycott the bus system on December 5 the buses ran empty for 381 days supreme court ruled bus had told blackride. -
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Chuches organize black event and for people to vote. Non-violence strategy. MLK will be the first president, because of the Montgomery bus. Boycott also wanted universal income and against Vietnam war. -
Little Rock 9
9 students picked by the NAACP to go to school. They were trained on how to handle events. Government of Arkansas called out the national guard to stop them president Eisenhower brought in 1,200 troops to escort those 9 students to school and to class. It worked the next year school was fully integrated. -
Greensboro sit ins
Go to Wordsworth’s buy items. Then go sit at the when counter they refused service and told the black people to leave but instead of leaving they stayed day after day they kept coming back did something the amount of students grew over the days to 1,000. Wordsworth was losing $1.8 million so they decided to serve the black community. -
Freedom riders
A diverse group of volunteers from 39 states most were college students arrived in charlotte, North Carolina blocked by the KKK busses burned and heating town after town -
March on Washington
250,00 people gathered in WDC. Peaceful and respectful protest. MLK will give a I have dream speech. He was the last speaker of the day -
Civil Rights Act
It enabled the federal government to prevented recital discrimination private businesses or public facilities -
Assassination of Malcom
Civil rights under who was part of the Nation of Islam . He wanted black people to believe in themselves and start their own businesses. He was shot 21 times . Thomas Hagen convicted of killing -
Selma to Montgomery Marches (Bloody Sunday)
Black marchers wanted to walk 54 miles to Montgomery to register to vote. At the Edmond bridge troopers brutality beat them up -
Assassination of Martin Luther king
Striking sanitation workers protest in Memphis went back with Remington rifle . James eral ray sentenced to 99 years his death marks the end of the civil rights movement.