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Brown vs.Board of education
Brown v. Board of Education was a landmark decision by the U.S. Supreme Court, which banned segregation in schools. It overturned the Plessy decision and the separate but equal doctrine. -
Emmett Till Murder
14 year old African American boy from Chicago who was visiting with family in Money, Mississippi. Till whistled at a white women (talked ¨fresh¨ to the women). The woman's husband, Roy Bryant and J.W. Miliam. Murdered Till and through his body in the Tallahassee river. His mother insisted on an open casket funeral. She said she wanted the world to see what they had done to her boy. -
Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott
The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a civil rights protest where African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery, Alabama, to protest segregated seating on buses. -
The little rock nine and school Integration
Nine African American students arrived at Central High School. As they were going through a crowd, the crowd was shouting obscenities and throwing things. When the students reached the front door the National Guard prevented them from entering the school and they were forced to go home. -
Greensboro Woolworth's Sit-ins
Four students sat down at a counter in a restaurant in downtown Greensboro, where only whites could go and they refuse serve the four black men. -
Freedom Rides
Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode buses into the segregated Southern United States and were challenging the United States Supreme Court. -
MLK’s Letter From Birmingham Jail
The letter said that people have a moral responsibility to break unjust laws and to take direct action rather than waiting forever for justice to come through the courts. -
March on Washigton
The March on Washington was held in Washington, D.C., on August 28, 1963. The purpose of the march was to advocate for the civil and economic rights of African Americans. -
Birmingham Baptist Church Bombing
The 16th Street Baptist Church was bombed by a white supremacist terrorist. It killed four African-American girls and injured more than 20 inside the church. -
24th Amendment
The right for citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or any election for President or the Vice President. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
The Civil Rights Act prohibited discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, and sex. -
“Bloody Sunday”/Selma to Montgomery March
Three protest marches along a 54-mile highway to the state capital of Montgomery. State troopers and county possemen started to attack the unarmed and peaceful marchers with clubs and tear gas as they were passing the country line. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
The Voting Rights Act outlawed the discriminatory of voting practices that were adopted in southern states after the Civil War was finished. -
Loving v. Virginia
In the Court Case Loving v. Virginia the Supreme Court ruled that laws banning marriage between people of different races violated the Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment.