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Brown V. Board of education
The Supreme Court ruled the the separate schools could never be equal, and recieve the same amount of fundings for both white and black students. Therefore, Lind Brown's parents sued the Topeka Board of Education which denied their daughter the right to attend a Topeka school -
Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks refuses to give up her bus seat to a white man who was demanding her to get up and move, but she remainded seated; she was arrested. This event caused a group of African Americans to organize a bus boycott. -
Crisis in Little Rock
The governor of Little Rock, Arkansas refused to desegregate Central High School and prevented African American students from attending. -
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Greensboro Lunch Counter Sit-In
Four African American college students sat in the Woolworths lunch counter in Geensboro, NC to draw attention to the civil rights act. Once the company desegrated all of its restaruants, it lost 1/3 of its business. -
Childrens Marches in Brimingham
President Kennedy ordered 3,000 army troops to restore peace in Birmingham, Alabama after the police force turned violent on the thousands of children who marched there with King. -
I Have a Dream
A quarter of a million people massed near the Lincoln Memorial to hear Martin Luther King Jr. deliver his most famous and inspiring speech. -
Civil rights Act
The act was enacted that outlawed segregation in public facilities and banned discrimination in employment based on a person's race, gender, religion, or nationality. -
Bloody Sunday
About 600 people began a march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. They were violently prevented from entering by helmeted state troopers. When this became public knowledge, millions of people across America finally realized what the civil rights movement was actually trying to do. -
Voting Rights Act
After a few weeks of a rapid sequence of events, President Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act which outlawed literacy tests, poll taxes, and other obstacles to black voter registration. King and John Lewis were present for the signing of the act. -
MLK Assassination
Martin Luther King Jr. was shot to death in Memphis, Tennessee by white man James Earl Ray, who was arrested and convicted.
