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Brown vs. Board of Education
Landmark court case that desegregated schools. -
Murder of Emmett Till
14 year old Emmett was brutally murdered while flirting with a white girl. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama. -
Integration of Little Rock High School (Little Rock Nine)
The Little Rock Nine was a group of nine African Americans that enrolled in a white high school in 1957. Their movement inspired many others. -
Formation of SCLC
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference is an African-American civil rights organization. -
Founding of SNCC
Channel of student commitment in the United States to the Civil Rights Movement during the 1960s. -
Woolworth's counter sit-ins in Greensboro
Civil rights silent protest in which African Americans held sit-ins at a segregated lunch counter. -
Freedom Rides
Were groups of white and African American civil rights activists who participated in bus trips through the American South in 1961 to protest segregated bus terminals. -
Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Letters from a Birmingham Jail"
Written as a response to local clergy's “call for unity” during the protests of 1963, the letter's defense of nonviolent resistance and its insistence on justice for all have made it a foundational text of both the civil rights movement -
Assasination of Medgar Evers
Evans was a Civil Rights activist, veteran, and state's field secretary for the NAACP. He was assassinated in his driveway. -
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
The purpose of the march was to advocate for the civil and economic rights of African Americans -
Birmingham Church bombing
An act of white supremacist terrorism which occurred at the African-American 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama -
Assassination of Malcolm X
American Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a popular figure during the civil rights movement -
March of Selma
Southern state legislatures had passed and maintained a series of discriminatory requirements and practices that had disenfranchised most of the millions of African Americans across the South throughout the 20th century. -
Assassination of MLK
An American clergyman, activist, and civil rights leader. Well known for his speeches. Fatally shot at Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee
