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Brown V. Board of Education
This supreme court case said that seperate but equal was not ok. This changed from the previous case ruling Plessy V. Ferguson saying that it was ok. This basicly started the movement giving the blacks hope. In some states they completely embrased this new ruling and in some they felt neutral about it however some were outraged. Geogia was one place that was outraged and they siad this was an abuse of power. The ruling was meant to annihilate segregation in schools and somewhat worked. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
A girl named Rosa Parks was riding the bus on a normal day but as she was occupying the end of the white sitting area and when she was asked to move by the bus driver she refused. The bus driver then got police to come in and they arrested her. Thus started a boycott that all African Americans would not ride the busses in Montgomery as this news about the arrest spread rapidly. This is what brought Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. into to Civil Rights Movement as they needed a leader to achieve this. -
Freedom Riders-Birmingham
This was the first stop that the freedom riders really saw a lot of action. They were harased in a few other places before this and were not treated well at all but this was the first time they were badly beaten. They did not just stop here though because they used inhumane ways to stop these protesters. The police used things like dogs or fire hoses on control these people. The event was even televised so all the people could watch this on their TVs. This sparked emotion for everyone in the US. -
March from Selma to Montgomery
After the death of Jimmie Lee Jackson Martin announced a march to Montgomery and so this happened. The police tried to stop the march by beating these people. They also gassed the marchers with tear gas to subdue the marchers along with clubs to beat the people with. This also made it to the television. MLK led these people after this all happened and the president decided to get them to Montomery safely. It was not for nothing as ten weeks later congress passed the Voting Righs Act of 1965. -
Bobby Kennedy assassinated
He was the last big leader figure that was for Civil Rights that wanted to achieve in without violance. The assassination was not directly invoving Civil Rights but it deffinitly effected it indirectly. The lack of leadership gave way to violance since MLK was already assassinated earlier in the year and even the assassination of John F. Kennedy. When this happens the movement is pretty much dead. As the movement gets too violant white people that were on the fence with MLK have been scared off.
