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Fair Deal
Desegregated military -
Brown v Board of Education
Ends segregation in public schools -
Montgomery bus boycott
Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat after working on her feet all day -
Little Rock Nine
Nine black students were being discriminated against since they were black attending a white school, Little Rock Central High. -
Greensboro 4
Four black students attending NC A&T decided to sit in a segregated cafe as a form of public disobedience. -
Freedom Riders
Civil rights activists who decided to fight to end segregation by traveling on buses to segregated areas, which were bombed by the KKK. -
March on Wahington
A march that demanded civil and economic rights for blacks and MLK did his "I Have A Dream" speech. -
Civil Rights Act
Ended segregation in public places, which was signed by Lyndon Johnson -
Selma March
MLK led civil rights demonstrators to Montgomery, Alabama; also known as "Bloody Sunday" -
Voting Rights Act
Everyone 18+ have the right to vote, not discriminating at all,& ended literacy test -
First African American Supreme Court Justice
Lyndon B. Johnson appoints Thurgood Marshall as the first African American Supreme Court Justice -
MLK Assassinated
MLK as assassinated on a balcony in Tennessee