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Brown vs Board of Education
- Plessy vs. Ferguson 2.The Plessy and Ferguson case had separate but equal facilities they declared that was inherently unfair toward schools 3.That blacks were not allowed to use any school of chocie
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Rosa Parks
- She sat on the bus after a long day of work and sat in a white passengers seat and refused to give it up so she was arrested.
- The 381 dat boycott of the montgomrty bus system
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Civil rights act 1957
1.President Eisenhower
2.Primarily a voting rights bill -
little Rock
1.The governor pervented african american kids from enrolling at a white school
2.He sent the national guard -
Freedom riders
1.They were political protests against segregation by blacks and whites
2.The congress of racial equality -
James meredith enrolls at Ole Miss
1.Riots started on campus
2.He sent the national guard -
Medgar Evers assassinated
1.An african american civil rights activist from mississippi
2.In his driveway he was murderedv by a white man named Byron de la Beckwith -
march on washington
1.More than 200,000 people were apart of the march for freedom and jobs.
2.I have dream speech -
Civil rights act of 1964
1.President lydon B Johnson
2.It ended segragation in public schools -
march to selma
1.To show the difficulty faced by black voters in the south to get a voting right act
2.State authorities
3.They made there journey in 3 days and a year later the voting rights act was passed. -
Thurgood marshall first black court
- A lawyer 2.He was the first black supreme court justice
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mlk dies
1.He was assassinated at a motel in memphis
2.He was a great leader and fought for bhis rights as well as other blacks did to and whites some whites liked mlk aswell for his leadership.
