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Brown v. Board of Education
Declared the end of legal segregation in the education system, asserting the segregated schools could never be equal and called for the desegregation of schools. -
Lynching of Emmett Till
Emmett Till was accused of whistling at Mrs. Bryant, a white women, and at some point on August 28th, he was kidnapped, beaten, shot in the head, had a large metal fan tied to his neck, and was thrown in the Tallahatchie River. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Sparked after the arrest of Rosa Parks, which created 13-months of mass protests, which ended with the U.S Supreme Court ruling that segregation on public buses is unconstitutional. -
State Flag of Georgia
In 1956, the entire legislative session was devoted to Governor Marvin Griffin’s platform of “massive resistance” to federally imposed integration of public schools. And with that idea added the Confederate battle flag onto Georgia’s state flag. -
Little Rock Nine
In 1957, nine African American teenagers helped desegregate Little Rock Central High School. -
Greensboro Sit-Ins
The Sit-Ins was a civil rights protests that spread through college towns, which many protesters were arrested for trespassing, disorderly conduct or disturbing the peace. Using the Sit-Ins as a non-violent protest. -
Civil Right Act of 1960
The Civil Rights Act of 1960 helped prove racially, discriminatory voter-registration practices and provided evidence used to help pass the Voting Rights Act of 1965. -
Freedom Rides
Student activists from the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) launched Freedom Rides to challenge segregation on interstate buses and bus terminals. -
Greyhound Bus Boycott
Buses carrying Freedom Riders into Anniston, Alabama were set on fire by an angry mob. Which gained national media attention and propelled federal intervention. -
Desegregation of Interstate Travel
After six months of protests, arrests, and press conferences by the Freedom Riders, the INterstate Commerce Commission finally outlawed discriminatory seating practices on interstate bus transits and removed whites only signs on buses. -
George Wallace Segregation Forever
George Wallace said his famous “Segregation Now, Segregation Tomorrow, Segregation Forever.” And was remembered as one of the most vehement rallying cries against racial quality. -
Birmingham Campaign
King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) joined with Birmingham, Alabama’s existing movement of Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights (ACMHR), and had a campaign to attack the city’s segregation system and put pressure on Birmingham’s merchants. -
George Wallace Door
George Wallace gained national attention when he personally stood outside of a schoolhouse at the University of Alabama to block the administration of two black students. -
March On Washington
Show of support for civil rights legislation and a protest against racial segregation. -
16th Street Baptist Church Bombing
Just before 11 o’clock instead of rising in prayers the church exploded from a bomb placed under the steps of the church, with 4 little girls killed. -
24th Amendment
Prohibits both federal and state governments from requiring poll taxes or other taxes that prevent certain groups of people from voting. -
Freedom Summer
Designed to draw the nation's attention to the violent oppression experienced by Mississippi black people who attempted to exercise their constitutional rights. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Prohibited discrimination in public places, provided for the integration of schools and other public facilities and made employment discrimination illegal. -
Economic Opportunity Act
Created programs to help low-income Americans to find jobs, education and healthcare. -
Testimony of Fannie Lou Hamer
Fannie Lou Hamer showed up for a mass meeting not know what a mass meeting was, and learned of Black people having the right to vote. -
Assassination of Malcolm X
Religious leader and civil rights leader was assassinated during a speech at the Audubon Ballroom in Manhattan. -
Bloody Sunday
After the death of Jimmie Lee Jackson, in works to protect his mother and grandfather, the SCLC and SNCC worked to march to the capitol building, and place his body on the steps. And later hundreds of non-violent protesters were injured. -
Selma March
Part of the Civil Rights protests the occurred March 21-25, 1965, in an effort to help register Black voters. -
Medicare and Medicaid Acts
Access to medical care for people who couldn’t afford medical bills or for the needy. But the lack of access to Black people, even after the Affordable Care Act and Patient Protection. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Outlawed discriminatory voting practice adopted in the many southern states after the Civil War, including literacy tests as a prerequisite to voting. -
Watts Riots
A large series of riots that broke out in the predominantly Black neighborhoods in Watts, Los Angeles. Resulted in 34 deaths, 1,032 injured, 4,000 arrests, involving 34,000 people and ending in the destruction of 1,000 buildings, totaling at $40 million of damage. -
Loving v. Virginia
A legal case deciding to struck down anti-miscegenation as unconstitutional. -
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Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
The assassination of the Civil Rights leader and reverend, causing major outbreaks of racial violence. -
Fair Housing Act
Prohibited discrimination concerning the sale, rental and financing of housing based on race, religion, national origin, sex, handicap and family status.