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Brown v. Board of Education
The Court declared that racial segregation in public schools violated the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, marked a turning point in the history of race relations in the United States, important because this lead to other things about discrimination that the Civil Rights Movement fixed. -
Emmett Till Murder
Emmett Til was accused of flirting with a white women in which her relatives murder him and he is found in the river days later. The Civil Rights Movement helped support this case in the end because this was another racially discrimination. -
Rosa Parks & the Montgomery Bus Boycott
A protest against the policy of racial segregation on bus travel and the public transit system of all areas in Alabama mostly Montgomery. This was beneficial movement of civil rights. -
The Little Rock Nine and Integration
Nine teens were to be the first African American students to enter Little Rock's Central High School.This is very important for the civil rights moment because this was against segregation in schools. -
Greensboro Woolworth's Sit-ins
Bringing the fight for civil rights to the national stage. African American students staged a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth’s lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, and refused to leave after being denied service. Another act of the Civil Rights Movement. -
Freedom Rides
Protests against segregation by Blacks and whites who rode buses together throughout South in 1961, to protest against bus transportation segregation. -
MLK Letter for Birmingham
The Letter from 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 racism. Very beneficial to the civil rights movement. -
March on Washington
March on Washington, this match was for Jobs and Freedom, to protest racial segregation and to support civil rights legislative that was pending in congress. -
Birmingham Baptist Church Bombing
Four local members of the KKK put 19 sticks of dynamite attached to a timing device beneath the steps located on the east side of the church. The motive was racial discrimination. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Prohibited or outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex and national origin. The most major part of the civil rights movement -
24th Amendment
Says that if the President becomes unable to do his job, the Vice President becomes the President, also prohibiting any poll tax in elections for officials. The Congress has the power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. -
“Bloody Sunday”/Selma to Montgomery March
Three protest marches, along a 54-mile highway in the capital of Alabama, around 600 people crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge in an attempt to begin the Selma to Montgomery march. Police violently beat the peaceful protestors in a way to stop the march for voting rights. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Banded the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the war (civil). -
Loving v. Virginia
Mildred and Richard Loving we’re a married couple in which the Court held that the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits governments from discriminating against individuals on the basis of race. This was important because it was discrimination against races of a marriage.