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Brown vs. Board of Education
Establishing racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional -
Rosa Parks & Montgomery Bus Boycott
A Black lady refused to give up her seat which end up in political and social protest were people walked instead of use pubilc transportation -
Emmett Till Murder
14 year old black boy was killed for whisting at a white woman -
The Little Rock Nine and Intergration
Nine black students was in enrolled in a all white school to test the segregation laws -
Greenboros
Was a nonviolent protest were black student sit a the lunch counter and refused leave after being denied service -
Freedom Rides
Civil right activists tested the Supreme Court decision that found segregated bus seating was unconstitutional -
24 Amendment
The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any election for President or Vice President -
MLK's Letter From Birmingham Jail
the most important written document of the civil right era -
March on Washington
A massive protest march to draw attention to the inequalities and challenges black people faced -
Birmingham Bapist Church Bomming
A dynamite bomb exploded in a church killing four black girls and injuring more than 20 people inside -
Civil Right Act of 1964
Act that prohibits dicrimination on the basis of race, religion, national origin, or sex -
Bloody Sunday
Officers beat unarmed marchers with clubs and sprayed them with tear gas -
Voting Right Act
Prohibits racial discrimination in voting -
Loving v. Virginia
that laws banning interracial marriage violate the Equal Protection