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Brown vs Board of Education
The decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that U.S. state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional, even if the segregated schools are otherwise equal in quality. -
Rosa Parks arrest
The front of a Montgomery bus was reserved for white citizens and the seats behind them for Black citizens. Rosa Parks refused to give her seat to a white person after being asked. “People always say that I didn’t give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn’t true. I was not tired physically." -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
The Montgomery bus boycott was a political and social campaign against the policy of racial segregation in the public transportation system of Montgomery, Alabama. It was a foundational event in the civil rights movement in the United States. -
Little Rock 9
a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School. the students were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school by Orval Faubus, the Governor of Arkansas. -
Sit-ins
a form of protest that involves one or more people taking over an area and occupying it. It often promotes political, social, or economic change. -
Freedom Riders
groups of white and African American civil rights activists who participated in Freedom Rides, bus trips through the American South to protest segregated bus terminals. -
Birmingham Protests
The American movement was organized by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to bring attention to the integration efforts of African Americans in Birmingham, Alabama. -
March on Washington
A protest against racial discrimination and to show support for major civil rights legislation that was pending in Congress. 250,000 people gathered in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. -
JFK Assasination
People lined the streets and waved to the Kennedy. His car turned off Main Street at Dealey Plaza, as it was passing the Texas School Book Depository, gunfire suddenly struck the plaza. Bullets hit the president's neck and head. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
prohibited discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. This civil rights act forbade discrimination on the basis of sex, as well as, race in hiring, promoting, and firing. -
Mississippi Summer
A volunteer campaign in the United States launched in June 1964 to attempt to register as many African-American voters as possible in Mississippi. -
Selma marches
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. The march was to ensure that African Americans could have the right to vote -
Voting Rights Act
The Act outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War, including literacy tests as a prerequisite to voting -
MLK assassination
Martin Luther King was shot dead while standing on a balcony outside his second-floor room at the Lorraine Motel by James Earl Ray in Memphis, Tennessee on April 4, 1968.