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U.S. Supreme Court struck down the Civil Rights Act
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Plessy v. Fergusson
The court legalized separate-but-equal. -
NAACP
They fought to end segregation in schools -
Brown v. Board of Education
the case reached the supreme court. -
Brown v. BOE case ruling
The ruling said separate-but-equal schools were unconstitutional -
Cut off integrated school systems
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Interstate commerce Commission
They prohibited segregation in interstate bus and train stations -
Desegregation of transportation systems
started in the south -
Bus Boycott
African American ministers and civic leaders asked all other African Americans to stay of the buses on December 5th -
Dr. King guilty
He and 89 others were found guilty of violating an outdated antilabor law forbidding boycotts -
Bus ride
Dr. King and a white minister rode on a bus without incident -
Dr. King moved
he moved to atlanta to be the head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) -
University of Georgia allowed it's first two African-American students
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Schools integrated
Nine African Americans integrated high schools with no problems -
NAACP and SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee)
they decided to test the ruling by sitting in the "whites only" waiting room at the city's bus station; and they were arrested -
Ivan Allen
He was elected and removed all white and colored signs -
Dr. MLK began a campaign in Birmingham, Alabama, to end discrimination
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John F. Kennedy
he went on television and stated that segregation was a moral crisis for the country -
bombing
a bomb went off at Sixteenth Street Baptist Church it killed four black children and injured 14 others. -
Assassination
JFK was killed in Dallas,Texas -
Civil rights act of 1964
President Johnson vowed to fight to pass President Kennedy's Civil rights bill. -
Nobel Peace Prize
MLK won a Nobel Peace Prize -
"Freedom Summer"
People began to help African Americans to be able to vote. A group involved in the effort was the SNCC which included Julian Bond and John Lewis. -
Voting Rights
MLK and other civil rights leaders met in Selma, Alabama to plan some demonstrations and marches to support voting rights for African Americans. -
Selma to Montgomery March
Over 4 thousand people came out to march for Voting Rights -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
a million African Americans were registered to vote. -
Dr. Martin Luther King will always be remembered
He was on his balcony talking to Jesse Jackson and got shot from a rifle. -
Convicted
James Earl Ray was sentenced to 99 years for Martin Luther King's death. -
U.S. Department of Justice sued Georgia Board of Education
they demanded the state stop funding places that refused desegregation plans -
"Oasis of tolerance"
African American Maynard Jackson became vice mayor, African American became a member of the BOE. -
All Georgia public schools integrated