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Brown vs. Board of Education
Court case that led to the end of segregation in schools. -
Rosa Parks and the Montgomery bus boycott
Rosa Parks refused to move from her spot in the African American section of the bus. She was arrested and a court case was started while African Americans boycotted all bus systems. -
Desegregating Little Rock High School
In the South Little Rock High school called in the national gaurd to prevent nine African American youths from entering the school. Later the children were escorted throughtout the school. -
Freedom rides
Freedom Rides were bus rides by Civil Rights activists on interstate buses into the segregated southern United States to test the United States Supreme Court decision Boynton v. Virginia, that said segregation was unconstitutional for passengers on interstate travel -
Birmingham Campaign
It focused on one goal—the desegregation of Birmingham's downtown merchants, rather than total desegregation, as in Albany. -
Malcolm X Joins the Movement
Malcom X made a public offer to collaborate with any civil rights organization that accepted the right to self-defense and the philosophy of Black nationalism -
Civil rights act
banned discrimination based on "race, color, religion, sex or national origin" in employment practices and public accommodations. -
King given the Nobel Prize
He was the youngest man to recieve the prize at 35 -
Boycott of New Orleans by American Football League players
After numerous black players were refused service by a number of New Orleans hotels and businesses, and white cabdrivers refused to carry black passengers, black and white players alike lobbied for a boycott of New Orleans. -
Martin Luther King assasinated
He was assasinated a day after his I've been to the Mountain top speech
