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Plessy V. Ferguson Case
It stated they should be seprate but equeal. Also Supreme court ruled them to be seperate on rail cars. -
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Civil Rights Movement 1950-1970
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Brown v. Board of Education,
Linda Brown went to a school of whites. She was judged and her parents sued. -
Emmett Till
Summer of 1955 Little boy named Emmett Till went to buy candy at the store, While buying the candy he reportly flirted witht eh owners wife who is white. Emmett till was then tied to weights and put in a lake and drowned. -
Bus Boycott/Rosa Parks
A few months ofter the Emmett till trail Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on the bus for a white person. -
Integration of Little Rock Central High School
9 Black Students were harrasst, cursed, and threatened. They were the only backs. They were forbidden from the High school. -
Lunch Counter
African American Collage students were eating lunch at a diner when they asked for service and they denied the sevice and were asked to leave but they stayed. -
Freedoms Rides
2 Groups left washington to call to the attention of the country by violation of antidicrimination laws. -
College University
Police force denied any African Americans step foot on the Univeristy Campus. -
Martin Luther King Jr Arrested
Blacks including Martin Luther King Jr were arrested for a fight that the whited started. -
Letter from Jail
Martin Luther King Jr. Wrote a letter from Birmingham jail. He wrote that startegy for nonvoilent resistence of rasim. -
Civil Rights Act
Congress Passed the Civil Rights act Which made live peiceful for the whites and blacks. -
Thurgood Marshall
Thurgood Marshall was the first african american to go to supreme court. -
Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr. was standing outside his mortel room on his balcony when James Earl Ray shot and killed Martin Luther King Jr. -
Fred Hampton
Fred Hampton Was a African American activist and chairman of the Black Panther Party. He was later shot and killed by the police force.
