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Brown v Board of Education of Topeka
a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional -
Emmett Till Lynched
14-year old African-American who was lynched in Mississippi after a white women said she was offended by him in her family's grocery store -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama -
Little Rock 9
a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957 -
Greensboro sit-ins Movement
A movement when young African-American students staged a sit -in at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, and refused to leave after being denied service -
Ruby Bridges Attends School in New Orleans
She was the first African-American child to desegregate the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana during the New Orleans school desegregation crisis in 1960 -
Freedom Riders
civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States, in 1961 and subsequent years, in order to challenge the non-enforcement -
James Meredith Enrolls at University of Mississippi
Meredith became the first African-American student to enroll at the University of Mississippi -
Letter from a Birmingham Jail
an open letter written by Martin Luther King Jr. while in jail -
University of Alabama Desegregated
When African American students attempted to desegregate the University of Alabama's new governor, flanked by state troopers, literally blocked the door of the enrollment office -
Medgar Evers Assassinated
he was killed after a funeral in Jackson -
March on Washington (MLK)
This event aimed to draw attention to continuing challenges and inequalities faced by African Americans a century after emancipation -
Birmingham Church Bombing
an act of white supermacist terrorism which occurred at the African- American 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama -
Freedom Summer Project
A volunteer campaign in the United States launched to attempt to register as many African-American voters as possible in Mississippi -
24th Amendment
This Amendment prohibits both Congress and the states from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax or other types of tax -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
a landmark civil rights and the US labor law in the united States that outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin -
Martin Luther King wins Nobel Peace Prize
Martin Luther King at the age of 35 was the youngest civil rights leader to win a noble peace prize -
March on Selma
marches held along the 54-mile highway from Selma, Alabama to the state capital of Montgomery -
Voting rights Act of 1965
A landmark piece of federal legislation in the United States that prohibits racial discrimination in voting -
Watts Riot
Started when an African-American motorist was pulled over on suspicion of reckless driving, the riots were blamed principally on police racism -
Thurgood Marshall Named Supreme Court Justice
an American lawyer, serving as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from October 1967 until October 1991 -
Martin Luther King Assassinated
American clergyman and civil rights leader, was fatally shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee
