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Scottsboro Boys
The Scottsboro Boys were nine Black teenagers accused of raping two white women in 1931. The case became a landmark legal case in the United States, raising issues of racism and fair trial rights. -
Brown vs. Board of Education
the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional, overturning the "separate but equal" doctrine established in Plessy v. Ferguson. -
The Murder of Emmitt Till
In August 1955 two Mississippians bludgeon and kill Emmett Till, a 14-year-old black boy, for whistling at a white woman; their acquittal and boasting of the atrocity spur the civil rights cause. -
The Little Rock 9
nine African American students who, in 1957, bravely integrated Little Rock Central High School, facing immense opposition and racial abuse, and became symbols of the Civil Rights Movement -
Ruby Bridges desegregate elementary school in New Orleans
On November 14, 1960, six-year-old Ruby Bridges became the first African American student to attend William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans, a previously all-white school, marking a pivotal moment in the desegregation of public schools in the South -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin, ending segregation in public places and federally funded programs, and establishing the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).