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Emmett Smith Murdered
Emmett Louis Till (black teenager) is murdered in Mississippi at the age of 14 after reportedly flirting with a white woman who's husband returned days later with his half-brother when they took Till to a barn and beat him and gouged his eyes out before shooting him in the head. -
Jackie Robinson Breaks Color Barrier
Owners in the top professional baseball leagues had an agreement to prohibit black player on the field. Brooklyn Dodgers general manager Branch Rickey broke this barrier by adding Jackie Robinson to his team in 1945. -
Brown V. Board Of Education
A unanimous supreme court decision held that segregation of school children was unconstitutional.This event led to the crisis in Littlerock -
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Montgomery bus Boycott
A boycott where African Americans refused to ride on the Montgomery bus system after Rosa parks refused to give her seat up to a white passenger and was arrested. The US supreme court decided shortly after that Montgomery must integrate their bus system. -
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Montgomery Bus Boycott
When African Americans refused to ride buses in Montgomery after Rosa parks refused to give up her seat to a white passenger and was arrested. The US supreme court ultimately ordered Montgomery to integrate its bus system. -
Crisis in Little Rock
One of the first acts of desegregation of public schools in which Presient Eisenhower had to send military support to protect the African American students entering the school. White protestors ran rampant trying to keep the races seperated. -
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Greensboro Sit Ints
What started as a couple of friends sitting in on lunch soon turned in to prostestors everywhere sitting in on white only areas and became a sucessfull protest. Occured soon after the Little Rock crisis as more students started to make a difference. -
Freedom
13 African American and white civil rights activists launched a series of bus trips through the south to protest segregation in bus stations. They left from D.C. and tried to integrate bus terminals. Soon many others joined in the cause and the Interstate Commerce Commission issued regulations prohibiting segregations in bus and train stations. -
Meredith and Ole Miss
JAmes Meredith attempted to enroll in an all white school by the name of ole missand was backed by the Brown V Board of Education court case becoming the first black student at that college. -
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Birmingham Campaign
Leaders organized sit-ins, marches on city hall, and boycotts to protest segregation laws in the city. -
March on Washington
More than 200,000 citizens gathered in D.C. for a politcal rally concerning jobs and freedom in which Martin Luther King recited his famous "I have a dream" speech. -
Birmingham Church Bombing
A bomb exploded before Sunday morning services at the 16th street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alaama. The attack killed four young girls and a clash between protestors and police. -
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Freedom Summer
Civil rights organizations organized a voter registration drive and aimed at increasing voter registration in Mississippi. -
Civil Rights Act
Forbade discrimination on the basis of sex as well as race in the workplace and in public areas. A big cause for MLKJ's speech during the March on Washington. Soon after, the voting rights act would be passed. -
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Selma to Montgomery
In early 1965, MArtin Luther King Jr.'s Southern Christian Leadership Conference made Selma, Alabama thee focal point of its efforts to register black voters in southern states. Protestors attempted to march from Selma to the capital of Montgomery and were met with hostile resistance. The National Guard protected the march and helped lead to the Voting Rights Act. -
Voting Rights Act
This law, signed into effect by president Lyndon B. Johnson, helped break the barriers of African American Voting. An effect of the March on Washington.
