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Brown v. Board of Education
Ended racial segregation in public schools, all across America -
Emmett Till
14 year old Emmett Till was brutally killed in Mississippi for being accused of flirting with a white woman -
Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man, where she was forced off of the bus -
Little Rock Nine
President Dwight D. Eisenhower had to send troops to help African American Students get to school without being harmed by their community -
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Freedom Rides
Various black and white activist known as freedom riders went around the south rebelling against society rules, and aganist racism -
March on Washington
Nearly 250,000 people took part in marching to the Lincoln memorial to hear Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. speak, where he delivered his famous "I have a dream" speech -
Birmingham Church Bombing
A bomb went off in a Baptist church in Alabama, where 4 little girls were killed, and many other injured -
Bloody Sunday
Nearly 600 civil rights activist marched from Selma to Montgomery, to show support against police brutalities -
Voting Rights Act
President Johnson formally signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965, preventing the use of literacy test to vote