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Race Riots
Many blacks in Detroit forced into 60 miles while business burned -
Brown v. Board of Education of Tropeka
A supreme court decision that separate schools from black students and for white students -
Montogomery Bus Boycott
Rosa parks refused to give up seat -
The sits in
black males sat at an all white lunch table -
Freedom Rides
Hope to provoke a violent reaction that would convince the Kennedy administration to enforce the law. -
March on Washington
200,000 gathered at the Lincoln memorial. -
March on birmingham alabama
MLK was arrested -
Civil Rights act of 1964
Made publics segreation illegal -
De jure vs. De Facto
Based on custom in schools public places -
24 admendment
Abolished tax to vote -
March from selma to montgomery for voting rights
March to register blacks voters -
Plessy v. Ferguson
A supreme court decision upholding the constitutionality of state laws. -
Little Rocks School intergration
A group of nine African Americans students enrolled in little rocks -
Voting Rights Act of !965
Prohibits racial discrimination in voting