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Civil Right movements
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Brown v Board of Education
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren delivered the unanimous ruling in the landmark civil rights case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. They were violating 14th amendment -
Little Rock Nine
a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. -
Montgomery bus boycott
was a 13-month mass protest that ended with the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that segregation on public buses is unconstitutional. -
Civil Right Act of 1957
the first civil rights legislation since Reconstruction -
Greensboro Four
A group of students( african america ) sat in a only whites dinner -
Affirmative Action
an action or policy favoring those who tend to suffer from discrimination, especially in relation to employment or education; positive discrimination -
March on Birmingham
a movement led in early 1963 by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) which sought to bring the national attention to the efforts of local black leaders to desegregate public failities -
March on Washington
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. The highlight of the march, which attracted 250,000 people, was Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech. -
24th Amendment
prohibiting any poll tax in elections for federal officials. -
Freedom Summer
also known as the the Mississippi Summer Project, was a 1964 voter registration drive sponsored by civil rights organizations including the Congress on Racial Equality -
Civil Right Act of 1964
The Civil Rights Act of 1964, which ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin -
March on Selma
Martin Luther King led thousands of nonviolent demonstrators to the steps of the capitol in Montgomery, Alabama, -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
the right of voting