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Brown vs. Board of Education
Made it fair for all races to go to school and would be equal -
Emmett Till Murder
Emmett was murdered for flirting with a white woman. -
Rosa Parks & the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Rosa Parks was arrested and fined for not giving her seat up for a white person. -
Little Rock Nine
9 African American students integrated a all white high school. -
Greensboro Woolworth's Sit-ins
4 of African American students sat at the bar of an all white bar. -
Freedom Rides
Civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated Southern United States -
March on Washington
The march for jobs and freedom for the African Americans. -
Birmingham Baptist Church Bombing
A white man bombed the church mainly of African Americans leaving 4 dead and 14-22 injured. -
Civil Rights Act
The Act outlawed discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin, required equal access to public places and employment, and enforced desegregation of schools and the right to vote. -
“Bloody Sunday”/Selma to Montgomery March
600 civil rights marchers headed east out of Selma on U.S. Route 80 and state and local lawmen attacked them with billy clubs and tear gas and drove them back into Selma -
Voting Rights Act
Landmark piece of federal legislation in the United States that prohibits racial discrimination in voting -
Loving v. Virginia
A court case to show that the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits governments from discriminating against individuals on the basis of race.