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Brown v. Board of Education
- Plessy v. Ferguson
- A little African American girl tried to go to a white school
- It ended federal tolerance to racial segregation
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Rosa Parks arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat
- Rosa Parks went to go onto a public bus and she was too tired to go to the back of the bus, so instead she sat in the front. When a white person tried to tell her to get up she refused to move and was arrested
- The African Americans were mad at the way they were treated so they boycotted riding the buses which made the bus system lose money
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Willie Edwards JR.
Killed by Klansmen
Montgomery, Alabama -
Civil Rights Act of 1957
- President Eisenhower
- Allowed African Americans to vote and integrated schools
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Events at Little Rock, Arkansas
- 9 black students tried to go to a white school and mobs of angry people threatened them, hurt them, and assaulted them
- The government sent out the national guard to surround the black students and protect them when they went to and from school everyday
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Mack Charles Parker
Taken from jail and lynched
Poplarville, Mississippi -
Attack of the Freedom Riders
- The Freedom Riders rode the buses because they were allowed to so that they could protest the south's refusal to integrate buses and that made white Americans very mad
- Martin Luther King and the NAACP helped support the Freedom Riders
- The Freedom Riders were not just African Americans but they were also white Americans who didn't like how blacks were treated
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James Meredith enrolls at Ole Miss
- White mobs were mad at him and tried to hurt him and harass him to try and make him leave. They threatened him and tried to hurt him
- They gave him a soldier to protect him when he went to school and to fight off the mobs of angry white people
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William Lewis Moore
Slain during one-man march against segregation
Attalla, Alabama -
Medgar Evers Assassinated
- He was a Civil Rights activist who tried to overturn segregation at the University of Mississippi 2.
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The March on Washington
- To push the passage of the Civil Rights Act
- Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" speech was given
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Civil Rights Act of 1964
- President Lyndon Johnson
- It outlawed discrimination against race, color, religion, sex, or national origin
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March to Selma
- To register black voting rights in the south
- The marchers faced angry crowds, lynching, being arrested, and threats from white Americans
- President Lyndon Johnson allowed them to vote no matter what
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Oneal Moore
Black deputy killed by nightriders
Varnado, Louisiana -
Ben Chester White
Killed by Klansmen
Natchez, Mississippi -
Thurgood Marshall first black Supreme Court Justice
- He won the Brown v. Board of education and ended segregation in schools
- This was monumental because he was the first African American to become a supreme court justice
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The Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King
- He went to go protest and help the poor in Tenessee and then he was assassinated
- It made an impact on whites because it made them think that everything was still going to be segregated and it made blacks sad and lose a little bit of hope for ending segregation