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Plessy v. Ferguson
Landmark constitutional law case of the U.S. supreme court, It upheld state racial segregation laws for public faculties under the doctrine of " separate but equal" -
Rosa parks
Rosa Parks refused to give her seat to a white man on a Montgomery bus. After she was arrest public busses were boycotted by blacks in Montgomery beginning on her first court hearing, lasting 381 days.
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The Greensboro Sitting
Four young African-Americans at North Carolina A&T University went into a store, purchased several items, then proceeded to sit down in the "Whites Only" section and order coffee.Even after denied service they stayed until closing at 5pm. Several months after they continued to do this with more and more men joining. They brought books with them to keep them busy.
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Brown vs the Topeka Board of Education
Former Serviceman in the U.S. Air force, Meredith applied and accepted into The UNiversity of Mississippi in 1962, but his admission was denied when the registrar learned of his race. -
Murder of Medgar Evers
Civil Rights leader, Medgar Evers, was murdered in this drive way by Byron De La Beckwith. Evers volunteered in the US army during WW2, after his funeral he was buried in Virginia with all military horrors. He was buried at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia. -
March on Washington
Around 200,000 Americans participated in the March on Washington for freedom and jobs. This is where Martin Luther King Jr. "I have a Dream" speech took place. -
Birmingham Church Bombing
Even after Martin Luther King's inspiring words in his "I have Dream speech, on this date a bomb exploded in before Sunday morning services at the 16th Street Baptist church in Birmingham, Alabama. Four young girls were killed and many others injured; outraged by over the violence between protesters and police over African Americans' rights. -
Civil Rights act
The Civil Rights act put a stop to public discrimination and banned discrimination on race, gender, or religion. It is thought of a crowning legislative achievements of the civil rights movement.
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Voting Rights Act 1965
This act was signed by President Lyndon B Johnson on August 6, 1965. It was a law that stop discrimination on voting. -
The Murder of Emmett Till
Emmett Till was 14 years old when he was brutally murder for flirting with a white women will visiting family in Mississippi. He was tortured, eye ripped out, beaten nearly to death and shot in the head. Then his killer proceeded to tie him to a cotton-gin fan and thrown in a river. Mrs. Bradley, Till's mother, demanded having the body taken back to Chicago and have an open casket to show what the racist murders done to her son.