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Congress of Racial Equality
Used peaceful tactics to help foster the civil rights movements -
Brown vs. board of education
The supreme Court rule it was unconstitution to segregate public school. It had created unequality thus might let feelings of superiority -
Emmit Till
A young man who died at the age of 14 for flirting with a white woman. He had been visting relatives when he was kidnapped and beaten to death. The two men arrested were found not guilty by the jury -
Rosa Park/ Montgomery bus boycott
When Mrs.Parks refused to give up her sit, she started a movement to help intergrate thte buses in Alabama thus started a civil rights movement. -
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
A group of Christian leader from all around the south started a movement to gain African Americans their freedom rights -
the student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
played an important in freedom ride and were quoted by many as being Shock troops of the revolution. -
Letter from Birmingham jail
Dr. king`s response to public concerns and caution by intimedators -
" I Have A Dream" speech
Martin Luther King delivered a speech during the March on Washington to massive civil rights marchers -
16th Street Baptist Church Bombing
Bomb was put in the Baptist church( center of black community) as intimidation to stop civil rights movement in Alabama. -
The 24th Amendment
The states were not allowed to prohibit the the voting of any citizen by puting toll tax, having grandfather clause, or any other law -
Stokely Carmichael
Political activist for the black power movement -
The civil Right Act of 1964
It prohibited the discrimination in public places, intergrated schools, and stopped discrimination in employment -
Malcolm X assassination
A civil rights leader was shot by a nation of Islam member -
Bloody Sunday
A march in Alabama aim was to get Black people their voting rights in Alabama for their recent election -
The Voting Act of 1965
Aim was to overcome legal barriers prohibiting African American to exercise right to vote -
Excutive Order 11246
Equal employment opportunities -
Black Panthers
Established revolutionary socialism through mass organization -
Martin Luther King
His death caused a mass riots across the nation unsuring that the sorrows of black lives mattered. -
The civil Rights Act of 1968
The act prescribed penalties for certain behaviors that prohibited the fair housing act
