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Brown vs Board of Education
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Murder of Emmitt Till
While visiting family in Money, Mississippi, 14 year old Emmett Till, an African American from Chicago,was murdered for allegedly flirting with a white woman. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama -
Integration of Little Rock High School (Little Rock Nine)
a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. Their enrollment was followed by the Little Rock Crisis, in which the students were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school -
Formation of the SCLC
he Southern Christian Leadership Conference was formed as a Civil Rights non-violent Protest group -
Founding of SNCC
Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, was a civil-rights group formed to give younger blacks more of a voice in the civil rights movement. -
Woolworth's counter sit-ins in Greensboro,
was a civil rights protest that started in 1960, when young African American students staged a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, and refused to leave after being denied service. -
Freedom Riders
Freedom Riders were groups of white and African American civil rights activists who participated in Freedom Rides, bus trips through the American South in 1961 to protest segregated bus terminals -
Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letters from a Birmingham Jail”
as a response to local clergy's “call for unity” during the protests of 1963, the letter's defense of nonviolent resistance and its insistence on justice for all have made it a foundational text of both the civil rights movement and history classrooms. -
Assassination of Medgar Evers
n the driveway outside his home in Jackson, Mississippi, African American civil rights leader Medgar Evers is shot to death by white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith. -
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom was held in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, August 28, 1963. The purpose of the march was to advocate for the civil and economic rights of African Americans -
Birmingham Church bombing
was an act of white supremacist terrorism -
March on Selma
The Selma to Montgomery march was part of a series of civil rights protests that occurred in 1965 -
Assassination of Malcolm X
an African American nationalist and religious leader, is assassinated by rival Black Muslims while addressing his Organization of Afro-American Unity at the Audubon Ballroom in Washington Heights. -
Assassination of MLK
Martin Luther King Jr., an civil rights leader, was shot.
