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Brown v Board of Education
Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. -
White Citizens Council
The Citizens' Councils were an associated network of white supremacist, extreme right, organizations in the United States, concentrated in the South. -
Brown v Board of Education II
In Brown II, the Supreme Court also set out rules about what schools needed to do to de-segregate. Finally, it explained how the United States government would make sure the schools did de-segregate -
Lynching of Emmett Till
A 14-year-old boy was lynched after flirting with a white girl and was beaten brutally till death and thrown into a river. -
Rosa Parks Arrest
Parks refused to obey bus driver James F. Blake's order to give up her seat in the "colored section" to a white passenger, after the whites-only section was filled. -
Montgomery bus boycott
The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama Dec 20, 1956 -
SCLC Founded
An African American civil rights association that is heavily associated with Martin Luther King Jr. -
Eisenhower sends in Federal Troops
The President sends troops to Little Rock along wiht national guard becouase of racial tensions -
SNCC Formed
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC, often pronounced /snɪk/ SNIK) was one of the major Civil Rights Movement organizations of the 1960s. -
Greensboro Sit Ins
The Greensboro sit-ins were a series of nonviolent protests in Greensboro, North Carolina -
Albany Georgia “failure”
A desegregation campaign formed on November 17, 1961, in Albany, Georgia. -
Freedom Riders
Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States -
Bailey v Patterson
That no State may require racial segregation of interstate or intrastate transportation facilities has been so well settled that it is foreclosed as a litigable issue -
Letter from Birmingham Jail
Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested and sent to jail because he and others were protesting the treatment of blacks in Birmingham, Alabama. -
Kennedy sends Federal Troops
President Kennedy, in sending military riot-control units to bases near Birmingham, said this Government will do whatever must be done to preserve order, to protect the lives of its citizens, and to uphold the law -
Equal Pay Act
Prohibition of sex discrimination which was signedinto law on June 10, 1963, by John F. Kennedy as part of his New Frontier Program. -
Assassination of Medgar Evers
NAACP and civil rights leader Medgar Evers was assassinated after coming home from Jackson. -
March on Washington “I have a Dream”
The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, the March on Washington was held in Washington, D.C. -
Assassination of John F. Kennedy
Assassinated at 12:30pm Dallas, Texas while driving a presidential vehicle in a plaza. -
XXIV Amendment
Section 1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President, for electors for President or Vice President, or for Senator or Representative in Congress, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State by reason of failure to pay any poll tax or other tax. Section 2. The Congress shall have the power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. -
Freedom Summer
Mississippi Summer Project, was a 1964 voter registration drive sponsored by civil rights organizations including the Congress on Racial Equality (CORE) and the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). -
Killing of Goodman, Chaney, Schwerner.
Three activists that were abducted and murdered in Neshoba County, Mississippi. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
An act which ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, and sex. -
Assassination of Malcolm X
Was shot while giving a speech at one of his rallies by a crowd member. -
Selma to Montgomery March
The Selma to Montgomery marches were three protest marches, held in 1965, along the 54-mile highway from Selma, Alabama to the state capital of Montgomery. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Prohibits voting discrimation. -
Black Panther Formed
A black activist political group that fought for black rights -
Loving V Virginia
It allowed interracial marriages to be lawful and was a major feat for civil rights. -
Minneapolis Riots
Series of riots due to racial tension -
Detroit Riots
The 1967 Detroit riot, also known as the 12th Street riot was the bloodiest race riot in the "Long, hot summer of 1967" -
Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
Civil Rights Leader was shot in a motel in Memphis and was declared dead at 7:05 pm -
Assassination of Robert “Bobby” Kennedy
42-year-old presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy was mortally wounded shortly after midnight PDT at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. -
White mob attacks federal marshals in Montgomery
400 U.S marshalls sent to Montgomery Bus Riots. -
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