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U.S Sepreme Court--- Brown vs Board of ED
This was a trial was revolved around the desgregation of schools and other things. -
Bus Boycott in Montgomery
In Alabama blacks organized a boycott of city busses because of segregating seating. It lasted 381 days. -
Little Rock
A board of Education admitted 9 stuents to the city's White Central High School. -
The Freedom Rides
Core organized the Freedom rides where blacks would get on a bus and would stop at places to see if they were desegragating things, they often were beaten and arrested. -
President Kennedy Notices that there needs to be Change
When King arrived in Birmingham they wre met with police dogs and fire houses which made J.F.K relize there needs to be a Civil Rights Legistation. -
Civil Rights Bill of 1964
AFter Kennedy's assassination L.J maneuvered the Civil Rights Act which outlawed segregation in public paces -
Freedom Summer
Groubs to enfranchis blacks climaxd in 1964 When many counies had a no black vote policy in Mississippi that COFO tried to fix by having a voter-registration drive. -
Lyndon Johnson Signs Voting Rights Act
Lyndon Johnson sighned the Voting Righst ACt so that blacks could vote. -
Martin Luther King Jr. is Asasinated
The civil rights begin to lose momentum after the assasination of M.L.K,J. -
Only 1% of Blacks are in Deep South Schools
15 Years after the Brown case, Only 1% of Blacks attended deep south public schools.
