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Rosa parks arrest
Rosa Parks was a civil rights leader who was put in jail because she didn't want to give up her seat. N.D. Nixon bailed her out of jail joined by white friends -
Greensboro Sit-In Protest
February 1, 1960, four friends sat down at a lunch counter in Greensboro. That may not sound like a legendary moment, but it was. The four people were African American, and they sat where African Americans weren't allowed to sit. They did this to take a stand against segregation. -
Integration of Ole Miss Riots
On September 30, 1962, riots erupted on the campus of the University of Mississippi in Oxford where locals students and committed segregationists had gathered to protest the enrollment of James Meredith a black Air Force veteran attempting to integrate the all-white school -
Medgar Evers shooting
in a suburban neighborhood of Jackson, Mississippi. A 37-year-old civil rights activist named Medgar Evers had just come home after a meeting of the NAACP. As he began the short walk up to his single-story rambler, the bullet struck Evers in the back. -
16th Street Baptist Church Bombing
The violent blast ripped through the wall, killing four African-American girls on the other side and injuring more than 20 inside the church. It was a clear act of racial hatred -
freedom summer
freedom summer also known as the Freedom Summer Project or the Mississippi Summer Project, was a volunteer campaign in the United States launched in June 1964 to attempt to register as many African-American voters as possible in Mississippi -
Civil Rights Act of 1964 is passed
Kennedy's assassination in November of 1963, his proposal culminated in the Civil Rights Act of 1964. President Lyndon Johnson signed it into law just a few hours after it was passed by Congress on July 2, 1964. The act outlawed segregation in businesses such as theaters, restaurants, and hotels -
The Selma Marches / Bloody Sunday
were three protest marches, held in 1965, along the 54-mile highway from Selma, Alabama, to the state capital of Montgomery. -
Black Panther Party is formed
The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense B.P.P. was founded in October 1966 in Oakland California by Huey P Newton and Bobby Seale who met at Merritt College in Oakland It was a revolutionary organization with an ideology of Black nationalism socialism and armed self-defense particularly against police brutality -
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is assassinated
Martin Luther King Jr was a Christian minister activist and political philosopher and was the most prominent leaders. Martin Luther King was shot dead while standing outside on a balcony on the second floor at Lorraine Motel in Memphis Tennessee