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Malcolm X
Malcolm X was an African American leader in the civil rights movement, minister and supporter of Black nationalism. He spoke about the need for Black empowerment and advocated for the adoption of Islam within the Black community as a spokesman for the Nation of Islam. -
Brown v. Board of Education
Brown v. Board of Education was the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously that racial segregation in public schools, violated the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution. https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/montgomery-bus-boycott#:~:text=Sparked%20by%20the%20arrest%20of,on%20public%20buses%20is%20unconstitutional. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
The Montgomery Bus Boycott was the Montgomery bus boycott was a 13-month mass protest that ended with the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that segregation on public buses is unconstitutional.
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Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks invigorated the struggle for racial equality when she refused to give up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery. SHe also launched the Montgomery Bus Boycott by 17,000 black citizens. -
Little Rock Nine
Little Rock Nine, group of African American high-school students who challenged racial segregation in the public schools of Little Rock, Arkansas. -
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) were nonsectarian American agency with headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia, established by the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., and other civil rights activists.
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Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
The group that was called Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was a group that the principal channel of student commitment in the United States to the civil rights movement during the 1960s.
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Ruby Bridges
Ruby Bridges advanced the cause of civil rights in November 1960 when she became the first African American student to integrate an elementary school in the South. -
Greensboro Sit-ins
The Greensboro Sit-ins was a act of nonviolent protest against a segregated lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina.
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Freedom Riders
This event was called the Freedom Riders the Freedom Riders was a event that happend on May 4, 1961 and it was a series of political protests against segregation by Blacks and whites who rode buses together through the American South in 1961. -
March on Washington
This event was called the March on Washington and this is when more than 200,000 demonstrators took part in the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in the nation's capital. The reason that this event is the most important is because The march was successful in pressuring the administration of John F. Kennedy initiated a strong federal civil rights bill in Congress. http://www.socialstudies.org/sites/default/files/publications/se/6501/650103.html -
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Martin Luther King, Jr. was a man who was a Baptist minister and social rights activist in the United States. He also was a leader of the American civil rights movement. He organized a number of peaceful protests as head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
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Civil Rights Act of 1964
Did you know what the Civil Rights Act of 1964 is well hear is an example of what it is. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin.
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Voting Rights Act of 1965
This event was called The Voting Rights Act of 1965 and it is a landmark piece of federal legislation in the United States that prohibits racial discrimination in voting. It was signed into law by President Lyndon B.It outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War, including literacy tests as a prerequisite to voting.
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Black Panthers
The Black Panthers, also known as the Black Panther Party, was a political organization founded in 1966 by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale to challenge police brutality against the African American community. -
Bloody Sunday: Selma to Birmingham March
This event is called Bloody Sunday: Selma to Birmingham March and it is when the state troopers and county possemen attacked the unarmed marchers with billy clubs and tear gas after they passed over the county line, and the event became known as Bloody Sunday.
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