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Rosa Parks & Montgomery Bus Boycott
The Montgomery Bus Boycott started when the hearing for Rosa Parks; an African American women came into play. The hearing was because she refused to move and give up her seat to a white man on a public bus, she was then arrested. The boycott lasted 381 days, because of this the Supreme Court ordered Montgomery to change its bus system. -
The Little Rock Nine
The "Little Rock Nine' was nine African American students who were enrolled in Little Rock Central High School. The enrollment of these nine students lead to the Little rock crisis which prohibited them from entering the school. President Eisenhower did not agree with this and intervened in the prohibition of these nine students, they were then allowed to return to the school. -
Loving v. Virginia Case
Mildred Jeter; a black woman, and Richard Loving; a white man, got married in the district of Columbia and then returned to Virginia, where there was a law that banned inter-racial marriages. Loving's had to make a choice of being sentenced to prison for one year or to leave Virginia for 25 years.
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Greensboro Four
Four A&T freshman lads sat at a whites only lunch counter at Woolworth's and stayed when told to leave by the white folks, they stayed till closing time. Which caused a chain of sit-ins across the country leading Woolworth's to become desegregated by July of 1960. -
Birmingham Church Bombing
A bomb exploded on 16th street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. This church served as a meeting spot for civil rights leaders. This bomb killed four young girls and injured many. This event lead to an outrage which started a clash between protesters and the police and drew national attention.
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James Meredith/ University of Mississippi
A legal battle occurred when James Meredith, an African American man, tried to enroll in the University of Mississippi. Riots started on the university's campus with two dead, hundreds wounded and many others arrested, after the Kennedy administration called for 31,000 National Guardsmen and other federal forces to enforce order. -
March on Washington
200,000 Americans gathered in Washington, D.C., for a political rally on Jobs and Freedom. This rally was organized by civil rights and religious groups to bring up the challenges African Americans went through. This was when Martin Luther King Jr. gave his "I have a dream" speech. -
The Murders of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman & Michael Schwerner
The black, James Chaney and two whites, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner went to investigate the burning of a black church . Where they were then arrested by the police and given to the KKK where they were beaten to death.
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Civil Rights Act
This act ended segregation as well as employment discrimination on race, color, religion, sex or national origin. President Kennedy proposed this idea but it wasn't signed until President Johnson became president. -
Voting Rights Act
This law was signed by President Johnson. This law's purpose was to overcome legal barrier at exercising their rights to vote under the 15th amendment.
