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Plessy V. Fergusion
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Challenging Segregation
A desegregation campaign was led largely by the NAACP, to end seregation -
Brown V. Board of Education
Father of eight-year-old Linda Brown had charged the board of Education with violating Lindaś rights by dyinging her to go to an all whites school. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Jo Ann Robinson wrote a letter to the mayor of Montgomery, asking that the bus drivers no longer be allowed to riders in the colored section to give the seats to the whites. No African American rode the city bus for over a year until it changed -
The ACMHR
The ACMHR test the Browder V.Gayle ruling by riding in the white sections. 22 demonstrators are arrested. -
Georgia Senate
The Georgia Senate declares that the 14th and 15th Amendments null and void in the state -
Atlanta’s Rich’s Department Store.
King and 50 others arrested at sit-in at Atlanta’s Rich’s Department Store. -
The Birmingham Campaign
The Birmingham campaign, organized by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights, protests segregation in Birmingham by daily mass demonstrations. -
Bombing in Birmingham
A double bombing in Birmingham, probably organized by the KKK with help from local police, precipitates rioting, police retaliation, intervention of state troopers, and finally mobilization of federal troops. -
George Wallace
Incoming Alabama governor George Wallace calls for "segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever" in his inaugural address.
