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Formation Of The NAACP
The National Association for the Colored People. -
The Congress Of Racial Equality is Formed
An African American civil rights organization in the united states that played a voting act. -
Desegregation Of The Military
President Harry S. Truman signed an executive order establishing the Presidents committee on Equlity treatment and opportunity in armed services. -
Freedom Riders
Bus Facility where segregated. Blacks n Whites known as the Freedom Riders travelled on busses. -
Plessy V Ferguson
Homer Plessy boarded a railroad car designated for whites only.Plessy was 1/8th black. 1896 this happen. Jim Crow laws are equal. -
Boston Busing
Boston schools public schools where under court control. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
U.S laws that disscriminates the, race, sex and color. It was illegal for whites to not let Blacks work or ride the same bus as them. -
Little Rock Nine
A group of African kids who went to Little Rock Nine school. In 1957. -
Freedom Summer
Put mississppi apart of us to make the economy larger. -
Martin Luther Kings assassination.
Was killed on April 4th, 1968. He was staying in a room in a motel room 306. -
Murder of Emmett Till.
Was a 14-year-old African boy who was pulled out of his bed in the middle of the night, and was beaten and killed because he said " bye babe" to a white woman in a store. -
Brown V Board of Education
Browns had their own school, not allowed in all white schools. So a 2nd grader who was black had to walk 7 blocks away acroods rail roads to go to school when she had an white school down her road. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Began 100 days after the murder of Emmett Till. In 1955 Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white person and was later arrested. Blacks came up with a bus for blacks lasted 381 days.MLK started the movement of the Boycott. -
The Strategy of Sit-Ins
SNCC, To organize the Sit-ins at counters throughout the south. -
Southern Christian Leadership Conference is formed
Was an African American Civil rights organization, SCLC. Martin Luther King Jr had a huge impact with this. -
Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee is formed
SNCC. It was emerged from the student Sit-ins. -
Martin Luther King Jr's "I have a dream" speech
Martin wrote this speech to tell people he wants freedom and everyone be able to have dreams and jobs. -
Malcolm X Begins leading the Nation of Islam
An African American who was a Political leader of the twenth century. -
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
Signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson. Aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote as agurenteed under the 15th amendement. -
24th Amendment
Gave the citizens the right to vote, for and Vice-president, and president. But if failed to pay tax or poll tax. -
Race Riots in Watts and other cities
Took place in Los Angeles from August 11 to the 16th. They reffered the riots as thw Watts rebelian. -
Rodney King Trial
Officers could not agree the charges on him. Men beat him, and made him blind.
