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Civil Rights Movement
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Brown vs. Board of Education
Ruled segregation in schools was unethical -
Emmett Till's Murder
Emmett Till killed for talking "fresh" to a white woman -
Rosa Parks / Montgomery Bus Boycott
Rosa Parks refused to give up seat, buses boycotted -
Little Rock 9
9 black students attended an all-white high school -
Sit-Ins
People sat at segregated lunch counters to protest -
Freedom Rides
Protesters rode interstate buses into segregated states -
March on Washington
Protesters marched to Washington, DC, to protest. During this, Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his famous "I Have a Dream" speech. -
Civil Rights Act
Outlawed discrimination -
Selma to Montgomery Marches
3 protest marches from Selma, Alabama, to Montgomery -
Voting Rights Act
Protected voters' rights -
Loving v. Virginia
Allowed interracial marriage
