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Freedom rides
The Freedom Rides were the Fellowship of Reconciliation. They organized interracial bus rides across state lines to test a Supreme Court decision that declared segregation on interstate buses unconstitutional. -
Brown vs. Board of Education
This case ruled that the law for segregation in schools was unconstitutional even if the schools are being treated equally. -
Emmett Till Murder
Emmett and his friend was accused of flirting with a white woman. They were both brutally murdered shortly after. -
Rosa Parks & the Montgomery Bus Boycott
A political but peaceful protest to campaign the racial segregation policy. Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat for a white man, just because she was a black woman. -
The Little Rock Nine and Integration
A group of nine black students enrolled into an all white school. This was to test the ruling of the brown vs. education. When the first day arrived the governor of the state called the national guard to black the entrance so that they could not enter. The president found out about this and sent his troops to personally escort the students into the school. -
Greensboro Woolworth's Sit-ins
Young African Americans staged a sit-in at a segregated lunch in Greensboro. They were denied service and still refused to leave. Many were arrested but it forced the company to change there segregation policies. -
MLK’s Letter From Birmingham Jail
A letter Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote from jail. It says that people have a moral responsibility to break unjust laws and to take direct action rather than waiting for justice to come through the government. -
March on Washington
A march for jobs and freedom. This march was to advocate civil and economical rights of African Americans -
Birmingham Baptist Church Bombing
Ku Klux Klan planted 19 sticks of dynamite attached to a timing device beneath the steps located on the east side of the church. When the church blew up 4 girls were killed. -
24th Amendment
This amendment prohibits any poll tax in elections for federal officials. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
This act prohibits discrimination of race, color, religion, sex or national origin. -
“Bloody Sunday”/Selma to Montgomery March
The selma march had about 600 people that crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge in an attempt to begin the Selma to Montgomery march. Then they encountered state troopers that violently attacked the peaceful protesters in an attempt to stop the march for voting rights. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
The voting rights act outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War. -
Loving v. Virginia
In this case the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously (9–0) struck down state of Virginia as unconstitutional under the equal protection and due process clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment.