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Brown vs. Board of Education
Lina Brown had a long commute to school because the black school was far away because of segregated schools. Having different schools for white and black people made it harder for the black community. -
Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott
In Montgomery, Alabama Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white and ended up getting arrested but she protested for what she belived in. -
Crisis at central high school
9 blacks went to an all-white school, but went to counseling to prepare them for class; this group is called the “little rock nine”. The Black kids were tourchered all year. -
Greensboro sit-ins
Group of black men that protested and sat down in diners and were made fun of. They changed segregation at resurants by fighting back in a non-violent way. -
Freedom Rides
Whites and Africans took trains and buses through the south to protest segregation and stop segregation on public buses & interstate travel. Seven blacks and six whites participated and stopped segregation on bus and trains. -
March on Washington “I have a dream speech”
Martin Luther King gave a speech to more than 200,000 about segregation in Washington D.C. He inspired hundreds of people to not give up because it is hard. -
Civil rights act of 1964 passed.
This ended segregation in public places and ended employment discrimination on African Americans. An important person in this even was Lyndon B. Johnson. -
Voting rights act of 1965 passed
This act abled African Americans to vote in 1965. This law was passed May 26, 1965, and the voting percent in 1964 in the south was 6% and went up to 59% in 1969. -
MLK assassinated
Martin Luther King was assassinated by James Earl Ray in Tennessee. He was shot in the neck at his hotel in Tennisse. He died one hour later and devastations filled the black communities.
