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Martin Luther King wins Nobel Peace Prize
The 35-year-old civil rights leader was the youngest winner of the prize that Dr.Alfred Nobrl instituted since the first was awarded in 1901 -
Thurgood Marshall Named Supreme Court Justice
Was an American lawyer, serving as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States -
Brown V Board of Education of Topeka
Was a landmark 1954 Supreme Court case in which the justices ruled unanimously that racial segregation of children in public schools was unconstitutional -
Little Rock 9
Were a group of nine black students who enrolled at formerly High School in Little Rock , Arkansa -
Emmett Till Lynched
Two men beat him nearly to death shot him in the head and threw his body, tied to the cotton -gin fan into the river , all because an false alligation -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
was a civil rights protest during which African Americans refused to ride buses in Montgomery , Alambama -
Ruby Bridges Attends School in New Orleans
Ruby Nell Bridges Hall is an American activist, she was the first African -American child to desegregate the all-white school in Louisiana during the New Orleans school desegregation -
Greensboro Sit -in Movement
was a civil rights protest that started in 1960, when a young African -American students staged a sit-in at segregated Woolworth's lunch in Greensboro -
Freedom Rider
Groups of white and African American civil rights activists who participated in Freedom Riders -
James Meredith Enrolls at University of Mississippi
Meredith became the first African American student to enroll at the University of Mississippi -
Letter from a Birmingham Jail
Is an open letter written on April 16, 1963, by Martin Luther King Jr The letter defends the strategy of nonviolent resistance to racsim -
University of Alabama Desegregated
Alabama Governor George Wallace ended his blockade of the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa and allows two African American students to enroll -
Medgar Evers Assassinated
Was killed after a funeral in Jackson , he was buried with full military honors -
March on Washington
Massive protest march for jobs and freedom -
Birmingham Church Bombing
A bomb exploded before Sunday morning services at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham Alabama , four young girls were killed -
Freedom Summer Project
was a 1964 voter registration project in Mississippi -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin -
24th Amendment
Both congress and the states from conditionung the right to vote in fedral elections -
March on Selma
Was part of a series of civil -rights protest that occurred in 1965 in Alabama , -
Voting rights Act of 1965
Signed into law by President Lyndon B Johnson to overcome legal barriers at the state that prevented African Americans from their right to vote -
Watts Riots
spurred on by residents of Watts who were embittered after years of economic and political isolation -
Martin Luther King Assassinated
Martin Luther King was assassinated in Memphis, Tennesse King had led the civil rights movement since the mid-1950s
