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Brown V. Board of Education
Segregated public schools. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Segregate busses eventually deemed unconstitutional. -
Interstate Commerce Commission Desegragated Busses and Trains
Result to Montgomery Bus Boycott, Deemed segragated busses to be uncostitutional. -
Woolworth Sit-Ins
Nonviolent protest in Greensboro NC, led to reversing the policy of racial segregation in the US. -
Freedom Riders
Civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated souths states. -
Baker v. Carr
Case ruled that federal courts have the power to determine the constitutinality of a states voting districts. -
Medgas Evers Assassinated
Landmark murder because evers was an anknowledged civil rights advocate. -
March on Washington
200,000 people join the march on Washington congregating as the lincoln memorial participants listen as martin luther king delivers his i have a dream speech. -
Gideon v. Wainwright
This case required the states to provide defense attorneys to criminal defendants charged with seriouse offenses. -
Church Bombing in Birmingham Alabama
Church bombing killing four african american women. -
Civil rights Act of 1964
Outlawed discimination based on Race, color, relition, sex, or national origin. -
Escobedo v. Illinois
This court case deemed it that indigent criminal defendants had a right to be provied counsel at trial. -
Malcolm Z Killed
Famous civil rights leader who spoke for the nationa of Islan spread of the Black power philosophy. -
Voting Registation March
From Selma to Montgomery was the 5-day 54 mile march from Selma Alabama where local African American marched to the steps of the capitol in a peaceful protest for viting rights. -
Watts Race Riot
This was a riot that was against racial segregation. Six day riot, that resulted in 34 deaths, 1,032 reported injuries, and 3,438 arrestes. Plus over 40 Million dollars in property damage. -
Civil rights Act
Outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion sex or national origin. -
Black Panther Rise to Prominence
This was a civil rights activist group that focused on civil equality. -
Miranda v. Arizona
Case that ruled detained criminal suspects prior to police questioning must be informed of their constitutinal right to an attorney and against self incrimination. -
Thurgood Marchall Appolinted to Supreme Court
First African American to sit on Americas hightest court. -
Martin Luther King assassinated
Decistating to the nation, King was an american clegyman activist and prominent leader of the African American civil rights movement. -
Robert Kennedy Assassinationed
Tragic to the nation, kennedy supported having equal rigts ofr black americans. He was assassinated because of these views. -
Olympics Black Power Salute
Tommie Smith and John Carlos during their Medal Ceremony at the 1968 SUmmer Olympics in they raised a Black Gloved Fist and kept them raised until the anthem had finished. -
Voting Rights Act
federal legislation passed that prohibits discriminationin voting. -
Bakke v. University of California
Decision by the Supreme Court of the US that upheld affirmative action allowing race to be one of the several factors in college admission policy.