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Plessy V Ferguson
It is important because the united states supreme court decision upholding the constitutionality of state law requiring racial segregation in public facilities under the doctrin of "seperate but equal" -
Emmett Till Murder
This is important to the civil rights movement because a teenager who was lynched in mississippi at the age of 14 after reportedly flirting with a white women. -
Brown V Board
It is important because it was a landmark united states supreme court case in which the court delared state laws establishing seperate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. -
Montgomery Bus boycott
a seminal event in the civil rights movement was a political and social protest campaign agianst the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery Alabama -
Freedom Riders
civil RIghts activist who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern united states in 1961. -
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Freedom Summer
campaign in the US lauched to attempt to register as many African-American voters as possible in Mississippi which had historically excluded most black from voting -
Civil Rights Act
This is important to the Civil RIghts Movement because it landmark piece of civil rights legislation in the united states that outlawed discrimination base on race, dolor, religion, sex or national origin. -
Sit Ins
Four students from north carolina A and T sit down at a "whites only " woolworth's lunch counter and asked to be served. -
1967 Race Riots
This is important to the civil rights movement because it was violent public disorder that turned into a civil disturbancein Detroit Michigan.
