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Brown V. Board of Education
- Plessy V. Ferguson
- African American kids being segregated in schools 3.Segregation in public schools was unconstitutional
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Rosa Parks Arrested
- Rosa Parks was riding the bus in the middle and denied a white man from taking her seat.
- She was taken off the bus and arrested
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Civil Rights Act of 1957
- President Eisenhower
- That everybody had the right to vote
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Little Rock Arkansas Events
- African American students tried entering a white school, and were met with mobs and violence.
- The government sent in National Guards
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Attack of the Freedom Riders
- They would ride segregated interstate buses into southern states
- Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
- No
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James Meredith enrolls at Ole Miss
- He was accepted
- They sent in troops to control the students
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Medgar Evers Assassainated
- A civil rights activist who fought for voting rights and to overturn segregation at the University of Mississippi
- While walking up to his house he was shot in the back in front of his kids
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The March on Washington
- To gain civil and economic rights
- Martin Luther King Jr's "I Have A Dream"
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Civil Rights Act of 1964
- Lyndon B. Johnson
- Outlawed discrimination against race, color, religion, sex or nationality.
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March to Selma
- For voting rights
- Police officers on the bridge looking to stop and beat them
- Led President Johnson to address the voting problems
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Thurgood Marshall Supreme Court Justice
- He was the founder and executive director of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund.
- Because a black man was in a very high, honorable position, and black people could now get fair trials.
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Assassination of MLK Jr.
- King was standing on the balcony of a motel room in Tennessee, when he was shpt in the face by James Earl Ray.
- Because he was such a large symbol of peace and equal rights, that seeing him being shot for who he wa, came across as very shocking.