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Brown vs. Board of Education
Court case between Oliver Brown and the Board of Education in Topeka. Brown wanted to end the segregation in public school. His method used is use the court system. He wins the case and schools are no longer segregated. Thurgood Marshall was its first African Amercan Justice in the case. -
The murder of Emmett Till in Mississippi
Emmit Till was a black 14-year old boy from Chicago. His mom sent him down to Mississippi to live with his uncle for the summer. One day while he was there he was playing with his cousins and they bet him to go and flirt with Mrs. Bryant when he left her store he whistled at her. He was mudered 3 days later by Mr. Bryant and his brother in law. The outcome was a big push for the Civil Rights Movement -
Montgomery Bus Coycott
Started with the arrest of Rosa Parks, the boycott was to desegregate buses. Martin Luther King Jr. was the leader of this boycott from beginning to end. The NAACP helped organize the boycott by informing other black communities. The used economic pressure by not taking the bus causing companies to close because they were losing 2/3 of their profits. Outcome was buses are desgeregated. -
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Little Rock Crisis
When 9 african american students enrolled in Central High School( a white highschool) Orval Faubus, Govener of Arkansas allowed the students in enroll but when time was near for the student s to begen the school year he denied them entry he called in national guard to keep them out. The students snuck into the school one day and were allowed in with heavy resistance after that. The outcome was that the school were now intergrated with black students. -
Sit-Ins and Freedom Rides of the 1960s
It was a new tatic created by the SNCC. Where students would sit patiently and did nothing. They were threatend and sometimes beaten but they never retaliated. The strategie that was used is the win over public opinion. Freedom Riders were people that rode interstate buses. C.O.R.E sponsered most of the Freedom Riders and organized by the SNCC. -
Civil Rights protest in Birmingham, Alabama
It was organized by the SCLC and it was to bring attention to black americans in Birmingham. They used non-violent actions to defy laws. Series of sit-ins and marches that provocated mass arrest. To detriate protestors Eugene "Bull" Connor used high power water jets and attack police dogs on children and by standers. The method used was force political change. The outcome was slowly desegregate Birmingham. -
1963 March on Washingtom, D.C
The march was organized by a group of civil rights labor and religious organizations. When Marthin Luther King gave his "I had dream" speech. The march was widly credited with helping the passing of the civil rights act and the voting act. Civil rights activists Malcolm X condemed the march and he was the spokes person for the Nation of Islam. He said the march "Farce on Washington". -
The passage of the civil rights act
Act that outlawed major forms of discrimination against race nationality or religion. They act was put in place by winning over public opinion. the act abbolished discrimination. -
1965 civil rights protest in Selma, Alabama
To marches the marked the peak of the Civil Rights Movement. The first was when 600 marchers protested the deat of Jimmie Jackson. The protestors were attacked by police. The second march took place the next week and resulted in 2,500 protestors turning around after crossing Pettus Bridge. These marches helped pass the voting rights act. -
Passage of the Voting Rights Act
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Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr
He was assassinated in Memphis, TN at the age of 39. James Earl Ray was arrested in London for the assassination. King's family believes that the assassination was a conspiracy involving the US government. Robert F Kennedy was the first to inform americans on the death of Martin Luther King Jr.
