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Brown v.s Board
the historic case in which segregation in schools was deemed illegal in the supreme court. even though schools would fight this for many years it was a major stepping stone on the way to equality. the argument that separate but equal was used and proven to be untrue. -
Emmit tills death
emmit till was a 14 year old boy who was visiting money Mississippi when he was accused for flirting and grabbing a white women (which recently was revealed to be lie) emitt was abducted by the husband and brother where he then was beaten naked and tied to a cotton gin generator and dumped in the river tied with barbed wire, when his mutilated body was recovered his mother had an open casket and photos published in jet magazine further fueled the movement as well as showed the Souths hate -
Rosa Parks
Rosa parks an activist refuses to give up her seat to a white women she is then arrested and as a result the Montgomery bus is boycotted by hundreds of blacks forcing to desegregation -
southern christian leadership conference
Martin Luther King helps found and is elected first president of the SCLC an important organization that promotes non violent civil disobedience -
little rock high
Arkansas governor faubus blocks the integration of little rock high by preventing 9 black students to enter, prompting president Kennedy to send in the national guard to escort the students in -
freedom rider attacks
two freedom rider buses are attacked in Birmingham and Anniston Alabama where KKK members attack the Birmingham bus by convincing law enforcement to give them 15 mins, in Anniston a mob throws a fire bomb in the bus. -
the march on Washington
famous protest for jobs and rights for African Americans where 250,000 protesters showed. Martin Luther King j.r gave his famous i have dream speech -
M.L.K is assassinated
king is gunned down on his hotel balcony in Memphis. -
civil rights act
president Johnson signs the civil rights act that bans discrimination of African Americans. he was able to push civil rights acts forward by portraying it as Kennedy legacy
