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Rosa Parks was born
Rosa Parks was born on February 4, 1913, in Tuskegee, Alabama. On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat, on a city bus, to a white male. In 1999, she won the Congressional Gold Medal. She passed away on October 24, 2005. -
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Medgar Wiley evens
Medgar Evers was born in July 2, 1925 and died June 12, 1963. He was and African American civil-rights supporter. His murder gained national attention and was one of the starting factors of the civil rights movement. -
Martin luther king was born
On January 15, 1929, Martin Luther King Jr. was born. He was influenced by Mohandas Gandhi because he advocated civil disobedience and non-violence. He received a doctorate degree in theology in 1955. -
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Jesse Jackson
He worked with Martin Luther King Jr. on the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. He worked for Operation Bread Basket that organized boycotts for fair hiring practices -
Congress of Racial Equality
This organization was founded in 1942. It was created to improve the relationships between whites and blacks, to get rid of discriminating laws and rules against African Americans. They take action with demonstrations, and effective acts to achieve an end. -
Bown vs. boad of education
On May 17, 1954 the US Supreme court ruled that the segregation in public schools violated the fourteenth amendment of the constitution. Their decision declared that it was unequal to separate blacks and whites in different school facilities. -
Roy wilkins
A Black American civil-rights leader who served as the executive director in 1955-1977 of the NAACP, he was often referred to as the senior statesman of the U.S. civil rights movement. He was appointed to the NAACP’s highest administrative post during the early stage of the civil rights Movement -
Freedom Rides
This first started in 1961. A series of protests were made by buses and the mix of black and whites on them. They drove through the south what they encountered there was not limited to them watching but also to they being beaten. -
John F. Kennedy
On June 11, 1963, a momentous event occurred at the University of Alabama. Two African Americans were ok to go to the University of Alabama. Governor George Wallace promised to “stand in the schoolhouse door” to keep them out, but at the last moment he stepped aside as the two young African Americans, protected by federal guardsmen, entered. -
Malcolm X
Malcolm was the opposite of Martin Luther King Jr. because he believed in using violence to gain civil rights. He became an important leader in the nation of Islam. -
Martin luther king Jr. Day
Matin luther King Jr. This day honors the achievements that martin Luther king achieved in his life. It is on the 3rd Monday in January. The most influential of African American civil rights leaders during the 1960s. -
Rosa Paks
On December 1, 1995 Rosa parks was sent to the back of the bus. She refuse to give her seat up and that’s when she was sent to the back of the bus. This was when MLK knew something needed to change -
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Freedom Rides: Freedom Riders preparing to board a bus in Montgomery, Ala., May 24, 1961.
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