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Brown vs. board
A law passed in 1954 that allowed desegregation in schools allowing blacks to attend school with whites. -
Montgomery bus boycott
A 13 month from December 5th 1955 to December 20th 1956 protest against segregated seats on the bus. This protest lead to the buses becoming desegregated. -
Little Rock Nine
The first black kids to go to a white school. The kids got things thrown at them, people calling them names. The government sent guards to walk the kids in. -
First lunch counter sit in
Four black students from Carolina A & T college protested segregation in restaurants by having a sit in Woolworth lunch counter -
Freedom riders
A civil rights group of white and black activist sent to the south to test if they were complying with the ruling that segregating on buses was illegal. -
Birmingham campaign
A movement organized to bring attention to the segregation in Birmingham, Alabama -
March in Washington
A march organized to bring awareness to unequal treatment to blacks in the war industries, and demand a end to segregation -
Civil rights act of 1964
A act to ban discrimination on race, sex, or religion -
Voting rights act of 1965
Gave every U.S. citizen the right to vote