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Brown vs Board
It is a Supreme Court case ends segregation. The vote was 9-0 or unanimous. Linda Brown who had a two commute to go to to black school, where a white school was blocked away. It was a great decisions, however there was a lot of violence after the ruling -
Emmet Till
A 14 year old boy killed while visiting family in Mississippi. He was accused of whistling at a white woman. -
Rosa parks and Bus Boycott
Rosa Parks refused to move seats and she is arrested on December 1,1955
-Rosa Parks refused to give her seat to a white man.
-African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery, Alabama to protest segregated seating -
SCLC
Testing Brown vs Board of Education decision. 9 students were vetted to undergo this test. Airborn 101escorted. -
Little Rock 9
The Little Rock Nine were a group of nine Black students who enrolled at formerly all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in September 1957. Governor Orval Faubus called in the Arkansas National Guard to block the Black students’ entry into the high school. Later that time, President Dwight D. Eisenhower sent in federal troops to escort the Little Rock Nine into the school. -
Grennsburo 4
Four African Americans sat where African Americans weren’t allowed to sit. They kept doing it continuously, as their group grew. They did get harassed and threatened a couple of time but no one was ever harmed -
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Youth group of students remained fiercely independent of MLK and SCLC, generating their own projects and strategies. The two organizations worked side by side throughout the early years of civil rights movement. This group was the second half of the freedom riders and were a part of the march to Selma -
Freedom Riders
It was a two week bus trip to the Deep South to deliberately violate J. C. L. It was organized by CORE. The buses were burned and riders beaten by the KKK. November 1, 1961 white and colored signs are removed from bus stations, train stations and lunch counters. -
March on Washington
The March on Washington was to advocate for the civil and economic rights of African Americans. 250,000 people were in attendance at the Lincoln memorial. MLK was the last to speak, and gave his “I have a dream speech”. 70-80% of marchers were black .It helped to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
The act can not be refused of service. It forbids employers and labor unions to discriminate against ant person on grounds of race, color, religion, sex, physically disabilities or age in job related manners. It opposes any type of discrimination. -
March on Selma/ Bloody Sunday
600 students March from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama to get the right to vote. They walked 54 miles and were stopped at the bridge. Seen on national television, LBJ ordered the passage of 1965 voting rights law . March 21-24 with 25,000 marches including MLK. -
Voting rights of Act of 1965
This act was signed into law on August 6, 1965, by President Lyndon Johnson. It outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War, including literacy tests as a prerequisite to voting. Blacks were finally registering to vote and being elected for office.