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Brown vs board of education
In this milestone decision, the Supreme Court ruled that separating children in public schools on the basis of race was unconstitutional. -
Emmet till
a 14-year old Black youth, was murdered in August 1955 in a racist attack that shocked the nation and provided a catalyst for the emerging civil rights movement -
Rosa parks
invigorated the struggle for racial equality when she refused to give up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama. -
SCLC
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) is a civil rights organization founded in 1957, as an offshoot of the Montgomery Improvement Association -
Little Rock 9
The "Little Rock Nine," as the nine teens came to be known, were to be the first African American students to enter Little Rock's Central High School. -
Greensboro 4
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. -
Freedom fighters
Fighter
a person who takes part in a violent struggle to achieve a political goal -
March on Washington
The March on Washington was a massive protest march that occurred in August 1963, when some 250000 people gathered in front of the Lincoln -
Civil rights act of 1964
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin. Provisions of this civil rights act forbade discrimination on the basis of sex, as well as, race in hiring, promoting, and firing. -
March on Selma/Bloody Sunday
On March 7, 1965, in Selma, Alabama, a 600-person civil rights demonstration ends in violence when marchers are attacked and beaten by white state troopers and sheriff's deputies. -
Voting rights act
The Voting Rights Act of 1965, signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson, aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote as guaranteed under the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution