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Brown vs Board of education
- Separate but equal is wrong
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Emmet till
- 14 years orla bit killed, visiting family in Mississippi
- both men found not guilty
- open casket
- spark to civil rights movement
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Rosa parks
- refused to leave her spot
- she got arrested
- bus boycott
- nonviolent protest
- ended Dec 21, 1956
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Southern Christian leadership
- started after bus boycott to organize protest
- MLK elected president
- organized protest around the south to coordinate events
- After MLK’s assassination it declined
- still exists today
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Little Rock nine
- testing brown vs board of education decision
- 9 students were vetted to undergo the test
- guards took kids to classes
- Following year all public schools closed
- aug 29, 1959 schools reopened
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Greensboro, North Carolina
- 4 college students sat down at a lunch counter at woolworths
- they refused to serve
- continued to “sit in” and others joined
- protest spread to other towns and forced change
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Student nonviolent coordinating committee and freedom summer
- youth group of students remained fiercely independent of MLK and SLC
- generated their own projects and strategies
- the two organizations worked side by side throughout the early years of the civil rights movement
- this group was the second half of the freedom rider and were a part of the march to Selma
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Freedom riders
- 2 week bus trip to the deep south to deliberately violate Jim Crow laws.
- organized by the CORE
- buses were burned and riders were beaten to death by KKK
- colored signs were removed in bus stations,train stations and lunch counters on NOV 1,1961
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March on Washington for jobs and freedom
- was to educate for the civil and economic rights of African Americans.
- 250,000 were in attendance at the Lincoln memorial.
- MLK was last to speak
- gave his “ I have a dream speech”
- 70-80% marchers were black
- it helped to pass the civil rights act of 1964
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Civil rights act of 1964
- can not be refused service
- on race, color, religion, sex, physical disability or age in job related matters
- prohibition discrimination against race, color, religion, national origin, sex, or physical disability
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March on Selma/Bloody Sunday
- 600 students marched from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama to get the right to vote
- walked to Selma and were stopped at the bridge
- seen on national television
- LBJ order the passage of 1965 voting right laws
- took place March 21-24 with 25,000 marchers including MLK
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Voting rights act of 1965
- one of the most comprehensive pieces of legislation in U.S. history
- blacks were registering to vote and being selected to public office