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Equal protection
It was a Supreme Court to tend segregation.9.6 decision or unanimous for equal protection under the 14th amendment. After the decision vidence and riots broke out with some schools closing -
Emmet till
A 14 year old boy from Chicago, visiting family in Mississippi. Accused of whistling at a white women. Roy Bryant and Jw milan kidnapped, beat,shot,killed, and then threw emmets body in the river. Maimetiil, emmets mother had an open casket funeral. Both men stood trial and found not guilty -
Rosa Parks and Bus Boycott
Rosa parks refused to move seats and she is arrested on December 1,1955
-Rosa parks refused to give her seat to a white man
- African Americans refused to ride city busses I. Montgomery, Alabama to protest segregated seating -
SCLC
Testing brown vs board of education decision. 9 students were vetted to undergo this test. Airborn 101 escorted -
Little Rock 9
Testing brown vs board of education decision
- 9 students were vetted to under go this test
- airborn 101 escorted students to class
- following year all public schools closed (1958)
- aug 29, 1959 schools re opened. -
Greensboro 4
On February 1, 1960, four friends sat down at a lunch counter in Greensboro. That may not sound like a legendary moment, but it was. The four people were African American, and they sat where African Americans weren't allowed to sit. They did this to take a stand against segregation -
Non violent coordinating committee and freedom summer
Planning began late in 1963 when the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) decided to recruit several hundred northern college students, mostly white, to work in Mississippi during the summer -
Freedom riders
It was a 2 week bus trip to the Deep South to deliberately violate J.c.l it was organized by Core the buses were burned and riders beaten by the kkk. November 1 1961 white and colored signs are removed from bus stations train station and lunch counters -
March on Washington
The march on Washington was to advocate for the civil and economic right of Africans Americans. 250 000 people were in attendance at the Lincoln memorial MLK was the last to speak and gave his “ I have a dream” speech to 70/80% of marchers were black. It helped to pass the civil rights act of 1964 -
Civil rights act of 1964
The act cannot be refused for service. It forbids employers and labor unions to discriminate against and person on ground of race color religion sex or physical disibalityn -
March on Selma/bloody Sunday
600 students March from Selma to Montgomery. Alabama to get the right to vote. They walked 54 miles and were stopped at the bridge. Seen on national television. LBJ order the passage of 1965 voting rights law -
Voting rights act of 1965
One of the most comprehensive pieces of legislation in U.S history. Blacks were resigstering to vote and being elected to public office -
Martin Luther assasinated and end civil rights
His assasination led to anger among black Americans. As well a period of national mourning that helped the way for an equal housing billing that would be the last significant legislative achievement of the civil rights