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brown v. board of education
brown v. bored of education was a big effect on the supreme court it was about segregation from public schools and they were trying too persuade all nine justices to overturn the separate but equal -
Emmett till murder
emmett till was a 14 year old boy who visited his family who lives in a small town in chicago so one day him and his cousins was outside and his cousin dared him to go up to the white woman in the store so he went into the store and said to the white woman hey baby and later on that day a man came to his uncle house and when he left with the 2 white men he was never seen again and at his funeral his mom said to leave it a open cascket to let everyone see what they done to her son -
rosa parks & the montgomery bus boycott
during these times whites got to in the front and the blacks had to sit in the back so one day a black women got up and sat in the front row and the people on the bus kept telling her to move but she wouldent move no matter what and the boycott from after that day lasted for 13 months and it ended with the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that segregation on public buses is unconstitutional -
the little rock nine and integration
in 1957 a school called little rock high school enrolled nine students in the school and some of the most of the smartest people go there and people hated some of the new nine students who came because of there skin and she didint know they were all going to ride together so when she got off the bus there was a mob chasing her and yelling at her going into the school and they even had to call the army for the students to get into the school -
greensboro woolworth sit in
there were four boys who went into a segregated woolworth lunch center and they sat there until they got service and wouldent move until then so they sat there even while people through food at them and everything else and it lasted all the way until july with all types of people supporting them -
freedom rides
the people on the bus were civil rights activist who riding all around the country spreading there message of freedom rides for all colors but after they past north carolina and just got into south carolina the bus was shot blown up and everything the could throw or use to destroy the bus -
mlk's letter from birmingham jail
it was a letter that martin luther king jr sent from when he was in birmingham jail and it inpacted a lot of people when he sent it -
march on washington
it was a rally led by dr martin luther king jr to end segregation and a quarter of a million people showed up to hear his i have a dream speech -
Birmingham Baptist Church Bombing
the 16th baptist was in birmingham alabama a white supremacist terrorist who bombed the black stairwell of the 16th street bapist church -
24th Amendment
The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President, for electors for President or Vice President, or for Senator or Representative in Congress -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
in the civil rights act it prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin -
Bloody Sunday”/Selma to Montgomery March
Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson introduced voting rights legislation in an address to a joint session of Congress. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War, including literacy tests as a prerequisite to voting. -
Loving v. Virginia
decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that laws banning interracial marriage violate the Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S.