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Brown Vs. Board of Education
http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/brown-v-board-of-education-of-topeka/videosOn may 17th 1954, the Brown Vs. Board of Education was when the sepreme court declared states laws unconstitutional for segregation of the majority group(whites) and the minority group(Blacks).This Case was ruled unconstitional by the 14th admendment.The reaction in Ga about this they were upset and wanted the schools to be segregated and the Sibley Commission tried to stop resistance for desegregation.This outcome caused states to intergrate schools. -
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Montgomery Bus Boycott
The Montgomery Bus Boycott started when Rosa Parks got arrested because she refused to give her seat to a white man on the bus.African americans started to boycott the buses and walked everywhere.The goal was to make the buses desegregated.The Results of this boycott was that they stoped protesting Because thier goal of desegregatating the buses came to them. -
Formation of SCLC
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) The leaders Were Bayard Rustin and Martin Luther King and thier goals where to continue to have nonviolent and peaceful movements with the minority group and the majority group.This formation was created after the bus boycott in Montgomery trying to expand thier goals throughout cities. -
Formation of SNCC and the integration of the Woolworth’s lunch counter
http://www.travelchannel.com/shows/mysteries-at-the-museum/video/historic-lunch-counter-sit-inThe Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committe (SNCC) leaders where King Stokey Carmicheal,Charles F. and, Charles Jones, created the sit in protest in Greensboro, South Carolina.The intergration of Woolworth's lunch conter was when four freshmen sat at the lunch counter and the people refused to serve them anything so they stayed until closing time.Each day they brought more students to protest with them but the students were arrested and began a boycott to stores which had segregated counters. -
Admission of Charlayne Hunter & Hamilton Holmes into the University of Georgia
http://dbsmaint.galib.uga.edu/wsbnews/clips/51554.htmlCharlayne Hunter & Hamilton Holmes were the first african american students to go to a University.This was a huge deal because it was the first start for intergration in the U.S.The result of this it was many riots and people wanting to hurt them.The people around them was very hateful. -
Freedom Riders
The freedom Riders were protester in the civil rights time who took buses into segregated states.They drove these buses to challenge the Supreme Court decisions.the people invovled were 13 men and women.There bus was burned down and some people were killed this caused the Interstate Commerce Commision(ICC) to get placed which did not allow segregation at the interstate travel. -
Albany Movement
http://www.myfoxal.com/story/16047367/recalling-the-hisotry-of-the-albany-movementDr.King and the SCLC was apart of the Albany Movement and the goal was to was to have a desegrated part of the city and alot of african americans were arrested and beaten.the results of this movement was that they fail to complete it. -
March on Washington
The March on Washington was the largest group where the followed king when he gave his i have a dream speech and the goal in this march was to support J.F.K Civil Rights Bill. The Leader of this march was Dr.King,Philip Randolph, Whitney M. Young, Jr., Martin Luther King, Jr., James Farmer, Roy Wilkins, and John Lewis. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/fair-housing-act
The civil rights Act banned job discrimination of race religon or anything else.This act was very important because it allowed the people to have same job equal choices as everyone else. This change the minority groups oppurtunities as a person this was a major achievement of the civil rights and Lyndon B.Johnson was president during this time. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
http://www.texasarchive.org/library/index.php?title=President_Johnson_Signs_Voting_Rights_Act_of_1965The voting rights act in 1965 was a federal legislation in the u.s that did not allowed people choose whether u can vote based on your race.This act was important because before this was a right but it was never inforced but it beganed to be be inforce when this law came into action.This changed the country because the minority group began to have a choice to government as well as the majority group.The president at this time was Lyndon Baines Johnson. -
Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King
http://abcnews.go.com/Archives/video/april-1968-martin-luther-king-jr-assassinated-9574376Martin Luther King Jr. played a huge role in the civil rights acts.He had smart people supporting he along his way but he was a strong indiviual that made people fight for intergration and equal opputunities for everyone.He led nonviolent protest and movements that made him get places and he never gave up even if he was hurt.he adventually brought people together to end rasicm all in one.
