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Little Rock Nine
The national association for the advancement of coloured people decided that the supreme court's decision to end segregation in schools had to be implemented. They decided that central high school in Little Rock, Arkansas, would be the place with nine African American students enrolling in this previously white-only school -
Rosa Parks
In Montgomery Alabama, Rosa Parks refused to move from her seat on a crowded bus when ordered by a bus driver to give it to a white man. She was arrested by police and charged with disorderly conduct and breaking local laws. -
The Montgomery Bus Boycott
In Montgomery, Calamba, a successful 381-day boycott to desegregate its buses since the law reserved the front seats of their bus for white people. -
Mob Violence in Alabama
Mob violence in Alabama- the Ku Klux Klan forced the greyhound bus off the road as it crossed into Alabama and used baseball bats, iron ars and knives to smash it window and slash its tyres, also fire-bombed the bus. -
The Freedom Rights
Freedom rides were groups of white and African and American civil rights activists who participated in freedom rides, bus trips through the American south in 1961 to protest segregated bus terminals -
March on Washington
Martin Luther King helped organise a march of about 250000 people in support of civil rights and demanding an end to segregation. at the ‘march on Washington’ on 28th august 1963 king gave him 'I have a dream' speech, urging the American people and their lawmakers to put an end to racial discrimination