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Brown v.s. Board of Education Case
The Brown v.s Board of Education was about a seven-year-old African-American girl, Linda Brown, whose father took the Topeka Board of Education to court. Mr. Brown did that because an all-white school wouldn't allow Linda to attend that school.The case went in favor of the Browns, meaning the separate but equal decision was no longer law.This outraged a lot of the major community.In Georgia, there was a commission made called Sibley Commission who would rather close schools than integrate. -
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Montgomery Bus Boycott
The Montgomery Bus Boycott started because of Rosa Parks.Parks refused to give her seat to a white man on the bus which caused her to be fined and arrested.As a result, civil rights activist such as Martin Luther King Jr. told people to stop taking the buses and they should walk or carpool to the places they need to be.This lasted for 381 days.The goal of the boycott was to integrate the buses.The boycott achieved its goal when the U.S. Supreme Court finally told Montgomery to integrate buses. -
S.C.L.C.
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference formed because of the good results of the Montgomery Bus Boycott.Martin Luther King Jr. was the president and the program organized was Ralph David Abernathy. The goal of the Conference was to have nonviolent protest that would help gain more equal rights for all people. -
Admission of Charlayne Hunter & Hamilton Holmes into the University of Georgia
Charlayne Hunter and Hamilton Holmes were the first African Americans to go the University Of Georgia.It was a big deal becasue it made the school integrate and some of the white students upset.After Hunter graduated,she went on to be a jornalist and worked for the New York Times,Africa's National Public Radio and CNN.As for Holmes,he went to Emory Unversity School Of Medicine.After he graduated,he began to work at Detriot General Hospital,then became medical director of Grady Memorial Hosptial. -
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Albany Movement
The Albany Movement was when a group of college students,who were the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, protest against the segregated bus system in Albany,Georgia.As the result of their peaceful protest about 500 people were jailed.Their goal was to stop bus segregation. -
March on Washington
The March on Washington D.C. was for jobs and freedom.
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Civil Rights Act of 1964
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 stopped dicrimation in jobs and integrated all public facilities.President Lyndon B. Johnson was the one to sign in the act because President John F. Kennedy was assassinated before he could.It was so significant because it allowed blacks to have equal treatment under law and more people were able to get jobs.The goal of the act was fullfilled which was to stop segregation and discrimation. -
Voting Rights Act Of 1965
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson.The act helped enforce the 15 Amendment by stopping Jim Crows Laws like polls taxes, grandfather clause, and lteracy test.This changed the amount of African Americans who were registered to vote.The act was powerful because it allowed blacks to have a say in the government. -
Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King
Martin Luther King Jr.Martin Luther King Jr. was born on January 15,1929 in Atlanta, Georgia.King went to Morehouse College where he was taught the theory of nonviolent protest from Bemjamin Mays.As he went to college he meet Coretta Scott.Later they married,moved to Montgomery,Alabama,had four childern and had became a preist.As King lived in Montgomery,he was selected to lead the bus boycott.As the result King became leader of the Civil Rights Movement where he gave specch,orgainzed marches and sit-ins.
