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Civil Rights Movement
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Seperate But Equal
In Florida they passed the first law saying that the railways will provide equal but separate for the white and the coloered. -
The Montgomery Bus Boycott
On Decemeber 1st 1955 was the day the blacks decided they would boycott the city buses until they could sit any where they wanted to sit. They had to move to the back of the bus whenever a white got on the bus. But that was not the day this actually started. In started in 1943 when Rosa Parks decided to deny moving to the back when a white person got on the bus.. -
Mississippi & Freedom Summer
In the 1960s Mississppi was the poorest state in the nation. 86% of non-white families lived below the national poverty line. The state had a bad record of black voting rights violations. In the 50s Mississippi was 45% blacks..of the blacks that were the legal age to vote only 5% were registered to vote. -
Sit-ins
People would sit in resturants and wait to be served. But whites would kick, hit, cuss and spit on them. The african americans would just sit there while they do that to them. Its like a silent protest. Sometimes, most of the time, they were never served but they would do that over and over agian. -
Freedom Riders
13 Freedom Riders left D.C. Their plan was to go to New Orleans to celebrate the 7th anniversary of the Supreme Court Brown v. Board of Education decison. It ruled that segregation in schools was unconstitutional. The bus made a stop in alabama, an angry mob followed and threw a bomb onto the bus the Freedom Riders escaped but the mob still beat them up. -
Birmingham
The SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Conference) launched a "Project C" for Confrontaion, On "B Day", for Birmingham. The SCLC staged sit-ins and released a "Birmingham Manifesto". -
March on Washington
More than 200,000 people went to Washington D.C, for a politcal rally about jobs and freedom. This was organized by multiple civil rights and religious groups. This is when Martin Luther King Jr. had his "I have dream" speech. -
Montgomery March
The Southern Chirstian Leader Conference focsused its efforts to register black voters in the south. In March protesters attempted to march from Selma (in Alabama) to the capital, Montegomery, but they were met by the state and local authorities with violent resistance.
