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Civil Rights Movement 1950-1969
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Brown vs board of education
The Brown vs board of education act was an argument that schools should be separate but equal. It overturned the separate but equal doctrine. -
Emmett Till
Emmett was a 14 year old boy from Chicago who was killed for allegedly whistling at a white women -
Rosa Parks , Bus Boycott
She refused to give up her seat to a white passenger on the bus. she was doing this because she wanted to show that everyone should be treated equal no matter what, -
MLK
Martin Luther King Jr was a pastor for the Dexter Avenue church and was the leader of the civil right movement and in the bus boycott. -
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
was a peaceful protest for racial policies and brought religious leaders to the front of the issues -
civil rights act
was a investigation because African Americna's were being denied to vote.