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March on Washington
I have a dream speech...jobs/freedom -
Malcom X
Anit-White pro Elijah Muhammad activitst -
Brown v Board of Education of Topeka, KS
separating blacks and whites in schools are unconstitutional -
Emmett Till
murdered for "flirting" with white girl -
Montgomery, AL bus boycott
campaign agaist separation of whites and blacks on busses -
Rosa Parks
refused to give up her seat for white man on bus -
SCLC
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference is an African-American civil rights organization -
Little Rock Nine
nine blacks were first to integrate with whites at high school -
SNCC
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee -
Great Society
Lyndon B Johnson wanted eliminate prejudice and poverty -
Freedom Riders
civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States -
James Meredith
Won court case allowing him to enroll in all white U of Miss -
Civil rights act of 1964
outlawed major forms of discrimination against racial, ethnic, national and religious minorities, and also women -
Selma
-attempts to march from Selma to Montgomery because Jimmy lee jackson, a demonstrater, had been shot. -
Kerner Commission
-investigate the causes of the 1967 race riots in the United States and to provide recommendations for the future. -
Civil rights act of 1968
-provided for equal housing opportunities regardless of race, creed, or national origin.
