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Murder of Medgar Evers
He was an African American civil rights activist -
Integration of Little Rock Central High School
It was the first time someone black went to a white school -
brown vs board of education
It was a court case trying to create separate public schools -
Murder of Emmett Till
He was walking to his relatives house, and flirted with a white cashier. He was kidnapped and murdered two days later. -
Montgomery bus boycott
People refused to ride the bus because of what happened to Rosa Parks -
Integration of Montgomery, AL busses
African Americans boycotted the buses until they stopped making them sit in the back -
Lunch counter sit-ins
It was a series of nonviolent protests in Greensboro -
Freedom riders
They were a civil rights activist group who rode interstate buses into the segregated south -
Letter from a Birmingham jail
It was Martin Luther King Jr. writing letters in prison -
Bombing of 16th St. Baptist Chruch
The bombing was an act of white supremacist -
24th Amendment
Prohibiting any poll taxing -
Murder of civil rights workers
James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner were all murdered in Philadelphia, Miss. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
It ended unequal application of voter registration -
Murder in Jimmie Lee Jackson
He was killed during a peaceful protest -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
The president aimed to make legal barriers so that African Americans could not vote -
Bloody Sunday
British soldiers shot 26 unarmed citizens during a protest against interment
