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Brown vs. Board of Education
In Topeka, Kansas the courts make schools separate but equal -
Murder of Emmett Till
14 year old Emmett Till was kidnapped, beaten, and killed by 2 white men for reportedly flirting with a white woman. The two men were tried for murder and freed. -
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The Montgomery Bus Boycott
The Bus Boycott started when Rosa Parks, an African American lady refused to give her bus seat up to a white man. The boycott began on Rosa Park's hearing day and lasted 381 days. -
Integration of Little Rock Central High School
9 black students enroll at Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, an all white school. On the first day of school, September 4 the governor ordered for the State National Guard to escort the 9 students into the high school. -
Lunch counter sit-ins at Woolworth's in Greensboro, NC
In Greensboro, North Carolina 4 African American college students sit down at a lunch counter and request service. They were denied and were asked to leave but remained in their seats. Hundreds of people from the community and church joined in sit ins for a 6 month protest. -
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Lunch counter sit-ins at Woolworth's in Greensboro, NC
In Greensboro, North Carolina 4 African American college students sit down at a lunch counter and request service. They were denied and were asked to leave but remained in their seats. Hundreds of people from the community and church joined in sit ins for a 6 month protest. -
Freedom Rides
A series of bus trips through the American South to protest segregation on interstate buses. -
Letter from a Birmingham jail
A letter written by Martin Luther King Jr. on April 16, 1963 defending non violent protests and resistance to racism. -
Murder of Medgar Evens
In Jackson, Mississippi African American civil rights leader and activist Medgar Evens was shot to death in his drive way by white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith. -
Bombing of 16th St. Baptist Church
On September 15th 1963 a Birmingham baptist church was bombed by 4 KKK members killing 4 little girls right before Sunday service. -
24th Amendment-- Outlawing of poll taxes
On January 23, 1964 the United States passed the 24th amendment prohibiting any poll tax in elections. Meaning no one has to pay for voting. -
Murder of Civil Rights workers
On June 21, 1964, James Chaney African American civil rights worker, and Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner white civil rights workers were murdered. The three were working to register blacks for voting and were arrested then beat and murdered by KKK. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Suggested by President John F. Kennedy and ended segregation in public places, banned employment discrimination such as race, color, religion, sex, or national origin -
Murder of Jimmie Lee Jackson
Civil Rights activist and deacon in a Baptist Church Jimmie Lee Jackson was beaten and shot by Alabama State Troopers while participating in a peaceful voting rights march in Marion, Alabama on February 18, 1965 -
Blood Sunday in Selma, Alabama
In Selma, Alabama state troopers and sheriff's posse attacked 525 civil rights demonstrators to promote black voter registration and protest killing of Jimmie Lee Jackson. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Law signed by President Lyndon Johnson banned racial discrimination.
