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The end of the Jim Crow laws
This was when the awful laws, (Jim Crow Laws) finally end, causing much segregation to end in many places, and creating a better sense of equality. -
Brown vs Board of Education
This was when the The Board of education was sued for the "separate but equal" not being true because the education being equal was very false. -
Emmett Till Murder
Black Teen was brutally killed for "flirting" with a white mans wife. This was major news since it was so morally wrong. The man was never found guilty and this caused an uproar in the public. -
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Montgomery Bus Boycott
This was when Rosa parks refused to get up her set and the boycott began to not ride the busses, and eventually the busses gave in do to their lack of customers, making the city desegregate the busses. -
Rosa Parks Bus sit-in
Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat to a white man on a bus after a long day of work. This was unfair to every black person who had to give up their seat if the bus was full. -
Little rock Crisis
9 black teenagers try to go to an all white school to desegregate it. They are stopped the first day by the national guard, and then the president brings in the army to protect the nine black school children. -
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Sit-in Protests at all white diners and lunch counters
This type of protesting occurred throughout the 1960s and was a common for nonviolence. It was specifically used in the Birmingham protests, and in the all-white lunch counters in the down town area. -
Freedom rides
This was where many black and some white supporters of civil-rights ride a bus into the deep south where racism was very present so that they could bring awareness to the issue of segregation and discrimination. -
Birmingham Protests
Peaceful protesting in one of Alabama's most segregated cities. This was with MLK and the SCLC working together to make headlines and create controversy through the media. -
MLK "I have a Dream" speech
This was one of the greatest speeches ever given in the History of America. MLK delivers this speech after a huge march on Washington, with thousands of protesters. This was one of his biggest cries for equal rights. -
JFK assassination
After JFK's attempts to help with the civil rights movement, there were many angry people from the South, and similar to Lincoln, Kennedy was assassinated in public. -
Selma Walk (MLK)
This was a march that MLK led and was for the voting rights for African Americans and was another large part of the movement towards equal rights. -
MLK assassinated
MLK while in a hotel was shot. This shocked the world and hit many of the civil rights activists very hard. He was one one the most iconic civil rights leaders in America and was now gone