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Supreme Court Outlaws School seggregation in Brown v. Board of education.
-Plessy v. ferguson was the court case that alloud sepparat4e vs equal facilities.
-What happened in topeka Kansas was when the court declared a law that sepparating black and white students was unconstitutional.
-The outcome of this was it made a law saying that sepparating black and white students was unconstitutional, the outcome was created in kansas. -
The rev George Lee: Killed for leading voter- regrestration drive
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Lamar Smith- killed for helping black voters
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Emmett Louis Till: murdered for speaking to a white woman
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John Earl Reese
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Rosa Parks Arrested
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Montgomery bus boycott begins
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Supreme court bans segregated seating on Montgomery buses
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WIllie Edwards Jr. killed by Klansmen in Montgomery, Alabama
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Congress passes first civil rights act since reconstruction
-Presednt Lyndon Johnson was responsible for passing this act or law.
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Presednt Eisenhower orders federal troops to enforce school desegregation in Little Rock, Arkensas
-Governor Orval Faubus ordered the Arkansas National Guard to prevent African American students from enrolling at Central High School. Central High was an all white school. -
President Eisenhower orders federal troops to enforce school desegregation in Little Rock, Arkansas
State Governor called for Arkansas National Guard to keep the nine students out of the school
Eisenhower removed the Arkansas National Guard
“President Dwight D. Eisenhower sent in federal troops to escort the ‘Little Rock Nine’ into the school, and they started their first full day of classes on September 25.”
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Mack Charles Pakrer taken from jail and lynched in Poplarville, Mississippi
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Black student stage sit in at "whites only" lunch counter in Greenboro, North Carolina
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supreme court outlaws segregation in bus trials
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Freedom ridders attacked in Alabama while testing compliance with bus deseggregation laws.
-what they were doing was they were testing the deseggregation laws
-The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) sponsored most of the subsequent Freedom Rides, but some were also organized by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).
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Harper Lee voter regrestration woker killed by white legleslator in Libirty< Mississipi
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Civil Rights group join and help votter regrestration drive
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CPL. Roman Ducksworth taken from bus and killed by police in Tayforsville, Mississippi
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JAmes Meradith enrolls at Ole Miss
n late September 1962, after a legal battle, an African-American man named James Meredith attempted to enroll at the University of Mississippi. Chaos briefly broke out on the Ole Miss campus, with riots ending in two dead, hundreds wounded and many others arrested, after the Kennedy administration called out some 31,000 National Guardsmen and other federal forces to enforce order -
PAul Guihard was a french reporter killed during Ole Miss riot in Oxford, Mississippi
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William Lewis Moore- slain during one -man march againsted segregation Artella, Alabama
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Birmingham police attack marching children with dogs and fire hoses
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Alabama Govoner George Wallace stands in schoolhouse door to stop univircity inseggregation
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Medgar Evers Assasanated
was an African-American civil rights activist whose murder drew national attention.
After attempting to segregate the University of Mississippi Law School in 1954, he became the NAACP field secretary in Mississippi. Evers was subjected to threats as the most visible civil rights leader in the state, and he was shot to death in June 1963. Although accused killer Byron De La Beckwith escaped conviction, the unearthing of new evidence decades later resulted in Beckwith’s retrial and imprisonment. -
2500,000 Americans march on washington for civil rights.
On August 28, 1963, more than 200,000 Americans gathered in Washington, D.C., for a political rally known as the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Organized by a number of civil rights and religious groups, the event was designed to shed light on the political and social challenges African Americans continued to face across the country. The march, which became a key moment in the growing struggle for civil rights in the United States, culminated in Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Drea -
Addie Mae Collins, Denise McNair,Charole Robertson and Cynthia Wesley were the school girls killed in bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birminghamn, Alabama
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Virgil Lamar Ware- Youth killed during wave of ratiaal violence in Birmingham, Alabama
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Poll tax outlawed in federal elections
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Louis Allen was a witness to murder of civil rights worker assasinated in Liberty, Mississippi
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Henry hezketiah and Charles Moore killed by klansman in Meadsville , Mississippi
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The rev burce klunder killed protesting constitution of seggregated schools in Clevland, Ohio
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freedon summer brings 1000 youth civil rights voulenteers to mississippi
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James Cheney, Andrew Goodman and Micheal schwerner- Civil rights workers abducted and slain by Klansmen in Philadalphia, Mississippi
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President Johnson signs Civil Rights Act of 1964
The Civil Rights Act of 1964, which ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin.
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Lt. Cole Lemuel Penn was killed by a Kalnsmen while driving north in Colbert, Georgia
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Johnathan Donnels- Sementary student killed by deputy in Hayneville, Alabama
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Jimmie Jackson- a civil rights marcher killed by a state trooper in Marion, Alabama
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State troopers beat back marchers at Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama
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The Reverend James ReebMarch VolunteerBeaten to deathSelma, Alabama
In the name of African-American voting rights, Martin Luther King, Jr. from Selma, AL. led a march to the state capitol at Montgomery. That night, a group of segregationists beat James Reeb to death.
Troopers blocked the march
King didn’t trust them and whether they would cause problems
King turned marchers around to avoid conflict
March 15, Johnson went on television to show support for Selma marchers by saying he would introduce the passage of a new voting rights bill
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Thousands complete the Selma to Montgomery voting rights march
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Viola Luizzo was killed by a Klansmen while transporting marchers on the Selma Highway, Alabama
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Oneal Moore- Black depudy killed by nightridders in Vanado, Louisiana
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Ben Chester White was killed by klansmen in Natchez Mississippi
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Congress passes voting rights act of 1965
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Willie Brewster killed by nightridders in Anniston, Alabama
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Samuel Young Jr.- Civil rights worker activist killed in Despute in Tuskee, Alabama
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Vernon Dahmer- Black community leader killed in klan bombing in Hattiesburg, Mississippi
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Charles Triggs- Slain by nightridders in Begunlusa, Louisiana
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wharlest jackson a civil rights leader killed after promotion to 'white' job in Nachtez, Mississippi
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Ben Brown a civil rights worker killed when police fired on protesters in Jackson, Mississippi
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Thurgood Marshall 1st African-American Supreme Court Justice
He argued 32 cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, successfully challenging racial segregation, most notably in public education.
He won 29 of these cases, including a groundbreaking victory in 1954’s Brown v. Board of Education
He was the great-grandson of slaves
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sam hammond and delano middleton and henry smith were innosent students killed when highway patrolmen fire on protesters in Changburg, South Carolina
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The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.Memphis, TN.The assassination of the famous Dr. King
Dr. King was there for mistreated African-American sanitation workers
He was staying at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.
The day before, April 3, he gave his last sermon and heThe Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Memphis, TN.
The assassination of the famous Dr. King
said, “We’ve got some difficult days ahead. But it really doesn’t matter with me now, because I’ve been to the mountaintop…And He’s allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I’ve looked over, and I’ve seen the Promised -
The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.Memphis, TN.
he assassination of the famous Dr. King
Dr. King was there for mistreated African-American sanitation workers
He was staying at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.
The day before, April 3, he gave his last sermon and he said, “We’ve got some difficult days ahead. But it really doesn’t matter with me now, because I’ve been to the mountaintop…And He’s allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I’ve looked over, and I’ve seen the Promised Land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to k
