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The 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments. - Ana
The amendments, which weren't that true to it's word, there were sneaky ways people kept slavery, it was just by a different name. It still was a step forward, not a big step, but a step. http://www.historytunes.com/13th%2014th%20and%2015th%20Amendments.php -
NAACP - Ana
The NAACP is one of the oldest and biggest civil rights organizations. https://www.history.com/topics/naacp -
Dorothy Height
Dorothy Height was a civil rights and women's rights activist focused primarily on improving the circumstances of and opportunities for African-American women. -
Daisy Bates
Daisy Bates was an African American civil rights activist and newspaper publisher who documented the battle to end segregation in Arkansas. -
Fannie Lue Hamer
Fannie Lou Hamer was an African-American civil rights activist who led voting drives and co-founded the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. -
Viola Gregg Liuzzo - Ana
Viola was a civil rights activist she was murdered by the KKK (Ku Klux Klan) for her efforts she was apart of the NAACP and the Selma March/ Bloody Sunday. https://www.biography.com/people/viola-gregg-liuzzo-370152 -
Marin Luther King Jr.
Made it so that all black and white kids could walk and talk in the same areas and not separated by color. Martin Luther King Jr. - Biography -
Diane Nash
an acclaimed American civil rights activist. She was prominently involved with integrating lunch counters through sit-ins -
Claudette Colvin
Claudette Colvin was a civil rights activist in Alabama during the 1950s. She refused to give up her seat on a bus months before Rosa Parks' more famous protest. -
The Bus Boycott - Ana
Rosa Parks an icon, she's the one who started the bus boycott.
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The Sit-In Movement - Ana
College students went up to a "White's Only" table and sat there, they were refused to be served and they had a lot of rude people yelling at them, but they just sat there peacefully and quietly. https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/odyssey/educate/lunch.html -
John F Kennedy
Was a catholic president trying to stop blacks and whites from fighting. -
Civil Rights Leaders Assassinated - Ana
Malcolm X was assassinated in a rally, and Martin Luther King. Jr got assassinated on his hotel balcony. -
Bloody Sunday - Ana
The Bloody Sunday was a march which over 600 people took part in. -
Little Rock Nine - Ana
The African American children were accepted into this school showing how it can be a possible thing for the future.https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/central-high-school-integration
