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Amendment 13
place: DC
methods: article 5 constitution
leaders: congress
results: it abolishis slavery -
Amendment 14
place; DC
methods: artical 5 constitution
leaders: congress
rusults: defies citizenship of rights -
Birmingham, Alabama
Birmingham is the largest city in Alabama. The city is the county seat of Jefferson County. The city's population was 212,237 according to the 2010 United States Census. -
plessy v. fergusone
place: louisiana
methods: supream court
leaders: henery billings brown
results: state laws requiring racial segregation in public facilities -
brown v. of education
place: Topeka, kansas
Mrthods: supream court
Leaders: Brown
Result: makiing the seperate but equal poctrine in public schools
unconstitutional -
Montgomer bus boycott
The Montgomery Bus Boycott, a seminal event in the U.S. civil rights movement, was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama. -
Pearsall plan
place: north carolina
methods: supream court
leaders: thomas pearsall, william B. umstead
Results: changes in the state N.C. constitution -
southern christian leadership conference
place: atlanta georgia
methods: ebenezer church
Leaders: Dr. king and 60 black ministers -
Little Rock Nine
The Little Rock Nine were the nine African-American students involved in the desegregation of Little Rock Central High School. Their entrance into the school in 1957 sparked a nationwide crisis when Arkansas governor Orval Faubus, in defiance of a federal court order, called out the Arkansas National Guard to prevent the Nine from entering. President -
Greensboro sit-in
place: greensboro NC
methods: non-violent protest
leaders: greensboro four
results: rivising its policy of rascial segregation -
Freedom riders
place: new orleans louisiana
methods: non-violent protest
leaders: james farmer
results: riders were arrested -
Letter from Birmingham jail
King wrote the letter from the city jail in Birmingham, Alabama, where he was confined after being arrested for his part in the Birmingham campaign, a planned non-violent protest conducted by the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights and King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference against racial segregation by Birmingham's city government and downtown retailers. -
Integrating university
Place: alabama
methods: federal district court
leaders: vivien malone and james hood
results: showdown between federal authorities and alabama
governer george wallece -
March on Washington
The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom was one of the largest political rallies for human rights in United States history and called for civil and economic rights for African Americans. It took place in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, August 28, 1963. Martin Luther King, Jr., standing in front of the Lincoln Memorial, delivered his historic "I Have a Dream" speech advocating racial harmon
