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Creation of the Montgomery Improvement Association
It is one of the most powerful stories of organizing and social change in US history. The great story of Rosa parks. She put her foot down. She didn't let what was happening in the world control her. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
This was a time where colored people had to sit in segregated seats on the bus. They refused to ride the bus because of this. It was the way of putting there foot down. This was a first for the US at the time. It was the first act against segregation. -
Little Rock Nine Crisis
National Guard to surround Central High School. The nine students from entering the school. President Eisenhower ordered the 101st Airborne Division. So Little Rock to insure the safety of the nine. -
Civil Rights Act of 1957
Thurmond focused on a particular provision in the bill that dealt with certain court cases. But opposed the entirety of the bill. Thurmond an ardent segregationist had served in the Senate for only three years. Before the speech but was politically well known even before his election to the body. -
Greensboro Sit-In
The Greensboro sit-ins were a series of nonviolent protests. now the International Civil Rights Center. Museum in Greensboro North Carolina also has things from it. -
Freedom Rides
Publicize and challenge segregation and racial discrimination against Aboriginal people in regional towns in New South Wales. -
Albany Campaign
It help lots of people get out of jail. There where thousands that got helped out. The Albany Movement began in fall 1961 and ended in summer 1962. -
Birmingham Movement
Civil Rights Act of 1964 which prohibited racial discrimination in hiring practices and public services throughout the United States.These things they did where not right but where slowly getting changed. -
Mississippi Freedom Summer
The Freedom Summer Project resulted in various meetings, protests, freedom schools, freedom housing, freedom libraries, and a collective rise in awareness of voting rights and disenfranchisement experienced by African Americans in Mississippi. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin. Provisions of this civil rights act forbade discrimination on the basis of sex, as well as, race in hiring, promoting, and firing. -
Swann vs. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools
April 20, 1971, the Supreme Court of the United States unanimously upheld busing programs that aimed to speed up the racial integration of public schools in the United States. -
Shirley Chisolm’s Presidential Campaign
first African American woman to campaign for the Democratic Party presidential nomination in 1972. She was able to get the confidence to stand up. -
Hank Aaron’s Home Run Record
Aaron hit 755 home runs from 1954-76, a mark that stood until Barry Bonds hit 762 from 1986-2007, a feat assisted by performance-enhancing drugs. Baseball's Hall of Fame will unveil a bronze statue of Hank Aaron on May 23 on the first floor of its museum in Cooperstown. -
Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
James Lawson has suggested that the impending occupation of Washington, D.C. by the Poor People's Campaign was a primary motive for the assassination. -
University of California Regents vs. Bakke
the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr., agreed, casting the deciding vote ordering the medical school to admit Bakke.