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Civil Rights Project
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Civil Rights Movement Project
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Brown Vs. Board of Education
On May 17, 1954, the U.S Supreme Court had finally declared that all schools in the U.S will integrate blacks into their school system, otherwise the schools would be shut down. But, the South responded to this outrage by changing their state flag to a Confederate flag in 1956, and doing the Sibely Commission. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Also being another helpful factor to the Civil Rights Movement, I believe that the montgomery bus boycott was one of the biggest and major events that had just happen at the beginning of the movement due to an African woman by the name of Rosa Parks that had supposedly refused to give up her seat on the bus, thus resulting in an arrest, a fine, a court case that had last a little more than a year, and a very massive boycott that successfully resulted in integration of buses in general. -
The Creation of the SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Conference)
The leaders that have created this society were Joseph Lowery, Fred Shuttlesworth, Martin Luther King Jr., Bayard Rustin, and Ralph Abernathy. The goals of this group were to plan the action of the protester groups and to return the U.S. back to its former gorly of being equal and fair. -
The Making of the SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Known as being one of youngest groups in the movement, it was also one of most popular groups at that time too besides the SCLC. The leaders of this group were Benard Lafayette, Charles Sherrod, Ella Baker, Julian Bond, and Diane Nash. The main goal of this group was to also integrate public places too, like doing sit-ins inside of diners, which was inspired by 4 students who have done the first sit-in. -
Admission of Charlayne Hunter & Hamilton Holmes into the University of Georgia
Being one of the biggest turning point in the civil rights movement, it's no wonder that it would rise a rouse out of people justr because of a two black people being in one of the most prestigious schools of Georgia and America. As a result, this event change everything that was all once about segregation in schools into something that could be special that all our future generations can appreciate later on in their lives. -
Freedom Riders
To keep it simple, the freedom riders were basically just a group of civil rights activists that drove interstate buses into the Southern part of the U.S., which was fully segregated at that time, during 1961. The results, the buses usually end up in a wreckage in the end with also many people resorting to violence against the activists due to racial violence, which I for one believe that the whole thing was stupid yet bold too at that time. -
Albany Movement
Being one of the biggest civil rights movement to ever occured besides the Mrach On Washington, in scale size, the Albany Movement was basically a plan to finally desegrate all of Albany in all one big group that mostly consisted of the SNCC and NAACP. And though it ended in a fail that resulted in almost everyone getting arrested, I believe that the Albany Movement was still a great success due to the many changes that have occured afterward the Movement. -
The March On Washington
Out of all the events and movements that have occured in the fight against racial violence and segregation, it's no wonder that the March on Washington was one of the biggest and most tide-changing event to have ever happened that help shaped the U.S. for the better. The main leader of this was none other than Martin Luther King Jr. leading about 250,000 people that were successfully able to gain the federal government's attention into making laws for blacks to be just as equal as whites. -
Civil RIghts Act of 1964
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Voting Rights Act of !965
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Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
