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Creation of the NAACP
It's a group that tried helping the colored and what they were dealing with. It important with civil rights because colored people should be protected from the violence happening to them just because of their skin color. -
scottsboro boys
It's important to civil rights because boys who are colored shouldn't be falsely accused of something they didn't do -
Jackie Robinson Breaks the Color Barrier
It was a colored man in a baseball team. It shows that that they have just as much of a right to sports than whites do -
Brown vs. Board of Education
It's where colored people could go to a public school. It's important to civil rights because we now have colored people at school now and it's a normal thing. -
The Murder of Emmitt Till
It was used for a case in 2007. It helps show that colored people get more violence. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
It was protest and campaign against the policy of racial segregation. It's important because things like this still happens today and it shows how long this has been going on and how important it is to the world. -
The Little Rock 9
It was basically a test to see how colored kids would do in school. It's important because it's let colored and different nationalities combine. -
Letter from a Birmingham Jail
it's an open letter that was written by Martin Luther King jr. It's important because it shows how much racial things showed then. -
Ruby Bridges desegregate elementary school in New Orleans
It was when the first little colored kid went to a white kid school. It's important to civil rights because it's helped people show it's okay to go different. it's made more things equal in between colored and white people. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
it's discriminating with racism and people of color. It's important to civil rights because it's made colored people today get to where they can be. -
Assassination of Malcolm X
He spoke up for the colored. He was killed because of his colored. it's important because it shows that he was innocent and that people of color should get as much respect. -
Creation of the Black Panthers
It's a group for self defense for colored people. It's important to civil rights because colored people think they need to be prepared when this shouldn't have to be a thing. -
Thurgood Marshall Named Supreme Court Justice
It was the first Supreme Court. It's important to civi rights because an African American got good rights. -
Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
He was also a spokesman and the leader of the American civil rights movement until he got assassinated. It's important because he was innocent but still got assassinated. -
Election of Barack Obama
Barack Obama was elected president. This is important to civil rights because he was our first colored president. This shows how far we have gotten with colored rights.