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White mob attacks federal marshals in Montgomery
The Federal Government dispatched 400 marshals and other armed officers to Alabama tonight to restore order in areas that were torn by racial violence. -
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Brown v Board of Education
Brown v. Board of Education, was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional -
Brown v Board of Education II
Brown v Board of Education II was a Supreme Court case decided in 1955. The year before, the Supreme Court had decided Brown v. Board of Education, which made racial segregation in schools illegal. -
Lynching of Emmett Till
Emmett Till was a 14-year-old African-American who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955, after a white woman said she was offended by him in her family's grocery store. -
Rosa Parks Arrested
Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger on a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama. -
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Montgomery bus boycott
The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama. -
Martin Luther King House Bombing
Martin Luther King Jr.'s house was bombed by segregationists in retaliation for the success of the Montgomery Bus Boycott -
Eisenhower sends in Federal Troops
Dwight D. Eisenhower send federal troops to Little Rock during the Central High School integration crisis in September 1957 -
Bombing of Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth
Fred Shuttlesworth one of the founders of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and the leading civil rights figure in Birmingham, Alabama, discusses the violence he suffered in 1955 and 1957 -
SCLC Founded
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference is an African-American civil rights organization. SCLC, which is closely associated with its first president, Martin Luther King Jr. -
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SNCC Formed
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was one of the major Civil Rights Movement organizations of the 1960s. -
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Greensboro sit ins
The Greensboro sit-ins were a series of nonviolent protests in Greensboro, North Carolina, in 1960, which was one of the sit-ins that later led to the Woolworth department store chain removing its policy -
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Albany Georgia “failure”
the Albany Movement began in fall 1961 and ended in summer 1962 -
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Freedom Riders
Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States in 1961. -
XXIV (24th) Amendment
The Twenty-fourth Amendment (Amendment XXIV) of the United States Constitution prohibits both Congress and the states from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax or other types of tax -
MLK goes to a Birmingham jail
In 1963 Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested and sent to jail because he and others were protesting the treatment of blacks in Birmingham, Alabama. -
Equal Pay Act
Equal pay for equal work is the concept of labor rights that individuals in the same workplace be given equal pay. It is most commonly used in the context of sexual discrimination, in relation to the gender pay gap. -
Kennedy sends in Federal Troops
President Kennedy, in sending military riot-control units to bases near Birmingham on May, 13, 1963 -
Assassination of Medgar Evers
De La Beckwith assassinated NAACP and civil rights leader Medgar Evers shortly after the activist arrived home in Jackson. -
March on Washington for Freedom
The March on Washington, or The Great March on Washington, was held in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, August 28, 1963 for Freedom and for jobs. -
Assassination of John F. Kennedy
The 35th President of the United States, was assassinated on Friday, November 22, 1963, at 12:30 p.m. in Dallas, Texas while riding in a presidential motorcade in Dealey Plaza. -
Freedom Summer
Freedom Summer was a volunteer campaign in the United States launched in June 1964 to attempt to register as many African-American voters as possible in Mississippi. -
Killing of Goodman, Chaney, Schwerner
Killing of Goodman, Chaney, Schwerner involved three activists that were abducted and murdered in Neshoba County, Mississippi, in June 1964 during the Civil Rights Movement. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is a landmark civil rights and US labor law in the United States that outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex or national origin. -
White Citizens Council
The Citizens' Councils were an associated network of white supremacist, extreme right, organizations in the United States, concentrated in the South. -
Assassination of Malcolm X
Malcolm X was shot before he was about to deliver a speech inside the Audobon Ballroom in New York. -
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Selma to Montgomery March
The Selma to Montgomery marches were three protest marches, held in 1965, along the 54-mile highway from Selma, Alabama to the state capital of Montgomery -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is a landmark piece of federal legislation in the United States that prohibits racial discrimination in voting. -
Loving v Virginia
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is a landmark piece of federal legislation in the United States that prohibits racial discrimination in voting. -
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Black Panther Party
The Black Panther Party or the BPP was a political organization founded by Bobby Seale and Huey Newton in October 1966. -
Minneapolis Riots
On the night of July 19, 1967, racial tension in North Minneapolis erupted along Plymouth Avenue in a series of acts of arson, assaults, and vandalism. -
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Detroit Riots
The 1967 Detroit riot, also known as the 12th Street riot was the bloodiest race riot in the "Long, hot summer of 1967" -
Assassination of MLK
Martin Luther King JR.,was shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968. He was rushed to St. Joseph's Hospital, but soon found dead. -
Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy
Robert F. Kennedy was mortally wounded shortly after midnight PDT at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles.
