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Civil Rights
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Rosa Parks
Rosa was arrested on this date, for not getting up and giving her seat in the front of the bus to a white man. -
SCLC
MLK Jr. and others, started the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) -
Little Rock
Nine couragous students were walked to school by the Air Froce/National Guard to ensure theire safety. -
Martin Luther King Jr.
MLK, gives his "I have a dream" speech, most of it from improv didn't have that speech written out. -
Voting Rights Act (weren't given spefic date)
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
-Eliminated the lit. test. (this way more blacks cculd vote, since they didn't have to pass a test.) -
Malcom X
This was the assanation day of Malcom X, he was killed by; 3 Black Muslims. He was 39. -
Stokley Carmichael
Stokley was arrested for setting up a tent on the campus on an all black high school. -
Police Brutailty
On this day, A politcal party, called the Black Panthers went to fight the injustice and police brutality in the ghettos. -
MLK Assanation
Martin Luther King Jr. was killed, standing on the balcony of his room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, TN.
