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Brown v Board of Education
The Supreme Cout rules that segregation in public schools is unconstitutuional -
Montgomery bus Boycott
Rosa parks gets arressted for not moving out of her seat for a white person so Martin Luther King Jr. leads a boycott of riding the buses in Montgomery which lasted for more than a year -
Creation of the SCLC
Ended up organizing many civil rights movements and was based on principles of non violence -
James Meredith
James Meredith is enrolled in a all white school which creates violence and riots to break out causing kennedy to send 5,000 federal troops -
Martin Luther KIng Jr gets arrested
Martin Luther King Jr. gets arrested during protests in birmingham and writes a letter arguing that people have the moral duty to disobey unjust laws -
Civil Rights protest in Birmingham
During the protest in Birmingham Eugene Bull Connor used fire hoses and dogs on protestors which was shown on television and published world wide, gaining sympathy for civil rights movements around the world -
March on Washington
200,000 people join the march on Washington listening to Martin Luther King Jrs I have a dream speech -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
The Voting Rights act of 1965 is passed which makes it easier for Southern Blacks to vote. Literacy tests, poll taxes , etc are made illegal. -
Martin Luther King Jr Killed
hes standing on his blacony outside and is shot -
Civil Rights act of 1968
Prohibits the discrimination in sale, renting, and financing of houses
