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Brown v. Board of Education
Location: Washington DC
I. Plessy v. Ferguson
II. A public school refused to enroll a student because of their race.
III. That it was unconstitutional and against the Fourteenth Amendment to segregate public schools.
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Murder of Emmett Till
I. The Murder of Emmett Louis Till
II. Money, Mississippi
III. Till was in a store when he was too young to understand racism, he said hi to a white woman. The husband killed him. When he was found, his face was unrecognizable.
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Rosa Parks Arrested
Location: Montgomery, Alabama
I. Rosa Parks was sitting near the middle of the bus when a white man told her to move out of her seat. She refused and ended being arrested.
II. She was arrested and put in jail.
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Civil Rights Act of 1957
Location: Washington DC
I. President Dwight D. Eisenhower
II. Empowered federal prosecutors to obtain court injunctions against interference with the right to vote.
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Events In Little Rock, Arkansas
Location: Little Rock, Arkansas
I. A group of nine high school students attended Central High School, a segregated school, and caused mobs to form outside of the school. President Eisenhower had to send federal troops to the school to enforce desegregation.
II. President Eisenhower sent federal troops to protect the students from the mobs.
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Segregation in Bus Terminals is Outlawed
I. Supreme Court Outlaws Segregation in Bus Terminals
II. Washington DC
III. After the bus boycott, the President outlawed segregation in public transportation.
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Attack of the Freedom Riders
Location: Alabama
I. The freedom riders were people that rode segregated buses in to the South.
II. Groups like the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) www.history.com
III. They weren't just blacks, they were whites and other races.
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James Meredith Enrolls at Ole Miss
Location: Ole Miss University
I. He was denied and his attempt to enroll caused riots to surround the college.
II. Kennedy sent thousands of troops to enforce order outside of the college.
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Death of William Lewis Moore
I. The Death of William Lewis Moore
II. Attalla, Alabama
III. During a one-man march against segregation, he was killed.
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Medgar Evers Assassinated
Location: Jackson, Mississippi
I. He was a civil rights leader.
II. He was shot in the back while he was walking up to his house, his murder was witnessed by his two children.
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/medgar-evers-assassinated
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The March on Washington
I. To spread awareness about the social and political issues that African Americans had to face on a daily basis.
II. Martin Luther King's speech about having a dream was delivered at the March on Washington.
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Civil Rights Act of 1964
Location: Washington DC
I. President Lyndon Johnson passed the act.
II. It made segregation illegal in most places and gave the government the permission to prevent discrimination.
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March to Selma
Location: Selma, Alabama
I. It was organized because the police department harassed African Americans that were going to vote, and the majority of Selma was made up of African Americans, but only 3% of the voters were African Americans.
II. They had to face Jim Clark, the sheriff deputy, and his posse.
III. 70 African Americans were injured after the march.
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Death of James Reeb
I. Death of James Reeb
II. Selma, Alabama
III. He was a volunteer in the Selma March and was beaten to death.
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Voting Rights Act of 1965
I. Voting Rights Act of 1965
II. Washington DC
III. The Act suspended literacy tests where less than half the citizens were able to vote. The results were dramatic, almost 250,000 people registered to be new voters.
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Thurgood Marshall
Location: Washington DC
I. He represented the NAACP in the Brown v. Board of Education
II. It was monumental because it was big step towards African Americans finally getting their political rights.
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Assassination of MLK
Location: Memphis, Tennessee
I. Martin was standing at his balcony in his hotel room when he was assassinated by a sniper.
II. His death marked the end of a period, the Civil Rights Movement.
