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Emmett Till Lynched
Emmitt Till was a 14 year old girl who was lynched for ¨offending¨ a white woman -
Birmingham Church Bombing
The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing was an act of white supremacist terrorism which occurred at the African-American 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama -
Brown v. Board of Education
Huge court case saying separate schools were unconstitutional -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Boycotted buses in Montgomery Alabama in order to get transportation equality -
Little rock 9
Group of 9 African Americans enrolled into the same high school -
Rudy bridges attends school in New Orleans
She was the first African-American child to desegregate the all-white William Frantz Elementary School -
Greensboro Sit-in Movement
civil rights protest that started in 1960, when young African-American students staged a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro -
Freedom Riders
Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States, in 1961 and subsequent years, in order to challenge the non-enforcement of the United States Supreme Court decisions -
James Meredith Enrolls at University of Mississippi
Meredith became the first African-American student to enroll at the University of Mississippi. Meredith's admission is regarded as a pivotal moment in the history of civil rights in the United States.