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Brown v. Board of Education
A landmark case in which the Supreme court ruled that segregated schools were unconstitutional. -
Emmett Till Murder
Emmett Till was murdered for "talking fresh" to a white woman. -
Rosa Parks & the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Rosa Parks refused to move from her bus seat for a white person to sit down and was arrested. -
Little Rock Nine
Nine students were chosen to attend Little Rock High School to start the integration process. These students were treated very badly. -
Greensboro Woolworth's Sit-ins
African Americans refused to leave the lunch counter after they would not be served. This protest spread all around through the South. -
Freedom Rides
Civil rights activists rode busses into segregated areas of the South to protest bus segregation. -
March on Washington
People marched at the Washington monument to protest for African American employment and freedom. -
Birmingham Baptist Church Bombing
A white supremacist terrorist bombed this predominantly black church in Birmingham, Alabama, killing 4 young African American women. -
Civil Rights Act
This act made discrimination due to color, race, religion, or sex illegal. This act also allowed everyone to vote, have access to public places, and be employed. -
“Bloody Sunday”/Selma to Montgomery March
These were 3 marches from Selma to Montgomery to try and get African Americans registered to vote in the South. Martin Luther King Jr. also participated in these marches. -
Voting Rights Act
This act banned voting discrimination based on race (no more literacy tests, which prevent the African Americans from voting.) -
Loving v. Virginia
In this Supreme Court case, it was ruled that Virginia's law against interracial marriage was unconstitutional.