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NAACP
It stand for National Association for the Advacment of Colored People. It focused on legal stragies of race color people and it also spreded equal right around the world. MAry White Ovington created this scivil right organization. -
Emmit Till
African American boy his name is Emmit Till, and he is from Chicago. He was killed in Mississippi when he was 14 years old. Two white men kidnapped and murder him which they shot him in the head.
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Medgar Evers and Voting in Mississippi
It was between 1952 and 1963. Ever he studies University of Mississippi Law School and he volunteered to help NAACP try to integrate the university with a law. Mississippi was so important to the fight to win black the votes. Medgar Evers organized voter registration efforts. -
Brown vs Board of Education
Back then it was a segregation in school. So the Brown v. Board decision helped break the back of state sponsored segregation. It was a segregation in public school between black and white people, but not anymore. -
Rosa Parks Arrested
In Montgomery, Alabama Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat for a white passenger and was arrested. She was charged $10 plus $4 in court fees. Her arrest helped to start the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
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Little Rock Nine
Nine black students enrolled at formerly all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. The suprem Court was ruling that declared segregation in public school. They were bullied and harassed.
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Sit-ins
This organizer believed that if violence were only on part of the white community, the would can see the righteousness of their cause. Launched a wave of anti segregation siting across the South and opened a national awareness of the depth in the nation.
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Birminghan,Alabama
Martin Luther Kind and other people were protesting about the treatment of black in Birmingham, Alabama. He was arrested in 1963. The court ordered that King could not hols protest in Birmingham. In that time everything was segregated from businesses to churches and others.
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March on Washington
More than 200,000 American were Washington, D.C, for political rally which it was for Jobs and Freedom. This event was designed political and social challenges African americans to have freedom across the country, Martin Luther was leading that and he said "I Have a Dream."
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24th Amendment- no poll taxes
Some states had to pay fee to vote in the national election which it also called a poll tax. So in 1964 the U.S signed the 24th Amendment. When they ratified it about five states still retained a poll tax. -
MFDP
MFDP was a part of a voter and registration project for African Americans. Over than half of blacks attend to that party which it was in Mississippi. The MFDP welcomed both whites and blacks. -
Freedom Summer
About a hundred white college student helped the organization which is the council of federal organization, in which helped increasing votes to collect balck votes. There were three students disappeared and their body were not discovered for about six weeks, but they found out that they have been murder. It helped precipitate the passage of a long pending civil rights bill in Congress. -
The Civil Right Act
It ended as a segregation in public place and prohibit ed employment on the basis of race,religion,color and sex. It was proposed by John F. Kennedy. It was signed at the white house. -
Selma
Martin Luther King Jr.'s Southern Christian Leadership Conference was led in Selma, Alabama. It was a protesting to effort to register black voter in South. The protest was from Selma to the state of Montgomery. The protest actually achieved their goal and because of Martin Luther Kind was participating it helped raise a big wariness of the difficulty that faced by black in which they have the right to vote. -
Voting Rights Act Of 1965
It was signed by the President Lyndon Johnson. It was registration put under the federal control. About 27,000 American Americans registered in about three weeks. It also increased the votes. -
Assassination of MLK
He was in his motel on the balcony and he got shot by a sniper. He was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee. Martin Luther King Jr. led the civil right movement he used a lot of powerful words and non-violent tactics such as sit-in and the boycotts.
