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Brown vs Board of Education
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka was a landmark 1954 Supreme Court case in which the justices ruled unanimously that racial segregation of children in public schools was unconstitutional. https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/brown-v-board-of-education-of-topeka -
Murder of Emmett Till
14-year-old Emmett Till, an African American from Chicago, is brutally murdered for allegedly flirting with a white woman four days earlier. https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-death-of-emmett-till -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a civil rights protest during which African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery, Alabama, to protest segregated seating. https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/montgomery-bus-boycott -
Formation of the SCLC
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Integration of Little Rock High School (Little Rock Nine)
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Founding of SNCC
The SNCC, or Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, was a civil-rights group formed to give younger blacks more of a voice in the civil rights movement. https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/sncc -
Woolworth's counter sit-ins in Greensboro
The Greensboro sit-in was a civil rights protest that started in 1960. https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/the-greensboro-sit-in -
Freedom Rides
Freedom Riders were groups of white and African American civil rights activists who participated in Freedom Rides, bus trips through the American South in 1961 to protest segregated bus terminals. https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/freedom-rides -
Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letters from a Birmingham Jail”
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Assassination of Medgar Evers
African American civil rights leader Medgar Evers is shot to death by white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith. https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/medgar-evers-assassinated -
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
The March on Washington was a massive protest march that occurred in August 1963, when some 250,000 people gathered in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/march-on-washington -
Birmingham Church bombing
On September 15, 1963, a bomb exploded at the 16th Street Baptist Church as church members prepared for Sunday services. https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/birmingham-church-bombing-video -
Assassination of Malcolm X
Malcolm X, an African American nationalist and religious leader, is assassinated by rival Black Muslims while addressing his Organization of Afro-American Unity at the Audubon Ballroom in Washington Heights. https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/malcolm-x-assassinated -
March on Selma
The Selma to Montgomery march was part of a series of civil rights protests that occurred in 1965 in Alabama, a Southern state with deeply entrenched racist policies. https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/selma-montgomery-march -
Assassination of MLK
Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968. https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/martin-luther-king-jr-assassination
