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James Meredith attends Ole Miss
-In 1962, he became the first African-American student admitted to the segregated University of Mississippi.
- Inspired by President John F. Kennedy's unfair address, Meredith decided to exercise his constitutional rights and apply to the University of Mississippi. His goal was to put pressure on the Kennedy administration to enforce civil rights for African Americans. -
Brown vs. Board of Education Ruling
n May 17, 1954, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren delivered the unanimous ruling in the landmark civil rights case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. State-sanctioned segregation of public schools was a violation of the 14th amendment and was therefore unconstitutional. -
Murder of Emmett Till
Fourteen-year-old Emmett Till was visiting relatives in Money, Mississippi, on August 24, 1955, when he reportedly flirted with a white cashier at a grocery store. Four days later, two white men kidnapped Till, beat him and shot him in the head. The men were tried for murder, but an all-white, male jury acquitted them. Till's murder and open casket funeral galvanized the emerging Civil Rights Movement. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
On Decemeber first Rosa Parks refused to get up and move to the back of the bus so a white man could sit down, she was arrested.
Martin Luther King Jr. organized the Montgomery bus boycott of 1955, which began a chain reaction of similar boycotts throughout the South. In 1956, the Supreme Court voted to end segregated busing.
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Little Rock Nine
On September 4th 1957 9 colored students took their first steps into Central High in Little Rock Arkansas with armed soldiers as their body guards. A white mob gathered out side of the school every day for several years. -
Greensboro Sit-In
- The Greensboro Four purchased products from a desegregated counter at the store with no problems, and then were refused service at the store's lunch counter when they each asked for a cup of coffee. Following store policy, staff refused to serve them at the "whites only" counter
- started with 4 Woolworths shoppers and ended with over 300.
- Were a series of nonviolent protests. Led to the Woolworth department store chain removing its policy of racial segregation in the Southern United States.
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Freedom Rides
-a series of bus trips through the American South to protest segregation in interstate bus terminals
-a group of 13 African-American and white civil rights activists launched the Freedom Rides -
Birmingham Protests
-In the spring of 1963, activists in Birmingham, Alabama launched one of the most influential campaigns of the Civil Rights Movement: Project C, better known as The Birmingham Campaign.
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March on Washington
-more than 200,000 Americans gathered in Washington, D.C., for the political rally known as the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
-the event was designed to shed light on the political and social challenges African Americans continued to face across the country. The march, which became a key moment in the growing struggle for civil rights in the United States, culminated in Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech, a spirited call for racial justice and equality. -
Freedom Summer
-In 1964, civil rights organizations including the Congress on Racial Equality (CORE) and Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) organized a voter registration drive, known as the Mississippi Summer Project, or Freedom Summer, aimed at dramatically increasing voter registration in Mississippi. -
1965 Selma Campaign
The three Selma to Montgomery marches in 1965 were part of the Voting Rights Movement underway in Selma, Alabama. By highlighting racial injustice in the South, they contributed to passage that year of the Voting Rights Act, a landmark federal achievement of the Civil Rights Movement. Activists publicized the three protest marches to walk the 54-mile highway from Selma to the Alabama state capital of Montgomery as showing the desire of colored citizens to exercise their constitutional rights. -
Kerner Commission
- was an 11-member commission established by President Lyndon B. Johnson to investigate the causes of the 1967 race riots in the United States and to provide recommendations for the future.
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MLK Assassination
Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was an American clergyman and civil rights leader who was fatally shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on Thursday, April 4, 1968, at the age of 39.
