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The desegregation of schools -
A bus boycott in Alabama to protest the segregated seating of buses -
Nine African American students integrated into Little Rock high school in 1957. They were harassed while they were at the school. -
A sit in to protest the segregation of restaurants seating. The protesters sat at the front of the restaurant and they were harassed and beat. -
When jfk got elected. “Ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country“ -
A bus ride across southern states to protest segregated buses. The bus they were on got fire bombed by the KKK. -
A church that got bombed by the KKK. 4 people died during the bombing. -
Multiple protests aimed at city segregation as a whole. During these the participants were sprayed with fire hydrants and attacked by dogs as well as beat by police officers. -
A march at the Washington monument where dr. Marten Luther king gave his I have a dream speech. “when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, Black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual: Free at last. Free at last. Thank God almighty, we are free at last” -
Laws passed to force equality. -
March started by three people to March from Selma to Montgomery Alabama. -
Act that allowed all to vote without a test -
Supreme Court case the ruled laws against interracial marriages unconstitutional. -
MLK getting assassinated in Memphis Tennessee -
Act prohibiting the discrimination with selling houses to certain people