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Plessy V Ferguson
Supreme court case that legalized segregation until 1950 under seperate but equal. This proved very hard to enforce -
Founding of NAACP
Association founded in NY to improve the life of black people, by trying to end segregation. -
Jackie Robinson integrates baseball
Played his first game in Booklyn and was met with lots of racism from fans and teammates. -
Military Integration
Executive order 9981 ended discrimination in the military by having an integrated boot camp. -
Brown V board of Education
lawsuit in Topeka county to allow black students to attend an all white high school. -
montgomery bus boycott
boycott against busses until the company ended the segregation. company realized they needed the money had had integrated busses. -
murder of Emmitt Till
14 year old kid from Chicago was in Mississippi visiting family and was beat and lynched. -
little rock nine
group of nine black students who had to be escorted by national guards men into the all white high school. -
Greensboro sit in
Black students in the SNCC protest segregation by sitting at whites only lunch counters. -
Freedom Rides
A test of the new integration of public transportation. met with violence and racism. -
Birmingham children's march
Children of birmingham march to talk to the mayor about school integration but are arrested. -
March on Washington
march for jobs and civil rights. where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his i have a dream speech. -
civil rights act of 1964
Outlaws discrimination of any public places based on color, gender, race, religion, or sex. -
Selma march
protest in Alabama on highway 55 and brutally beat and stopped by police officials. -
voting rights act of 1965
Stopped the sates from passing laws to try to block black people from voting. -
watts riots
riots about brutal beating of a black driver by two white men for no apparent reason.
