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Gwendolyn Brooks
Moved West during the Great Mirgration when she was six weeks old. -
Brown v. Board of Education Topeka
This event was political because Brown wasn't allowed to go into an all white school to get taught like the other kids. Which caused the Surpreme Court to get involved. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
This event is an economic event because the buses were losing money from where African Americans didn't ride the bus for approximately over one year. -
Groups used massive resistance against African Americans
This would be a soical event because the blacks were beat by the KKK and had many death threats because of their many Civil Rights victories. -
The Pearsall Plan
This is an economic event because the white kids who attended a private school would get tuition money to pay for the school fees. -
Little Rock Nine
This is a social event because Federal Troops got involved to safley take the African American kids to school. -
Greensboro Coffee Party
This is an economic event because the workers refused to serve the blacks. -
Sit-Ins
This is an economic event because the lunch counters were losing money from where the blacks would sit there all day even though they wern't getting served. -
Civil Rights Leaders Protested in Birmingham, Alabama
This is a political event because they employed African Americans in downtown stores. -
March on Washington
This is a social event because Martin Luther King Jr lead it and he faced many jailings and other things to help the blacks. -
Voting Rights Act
This is a political event because it gave African Americans the right to vote. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
This an a politcal event because it banned segregation everywhere and prevented job discrimination. -
NC regnozied serveral Native American groups in 1970
This is a political event because the Native American groups began to get the same rights as others. -
Swann v. Mecklenburg
This is a social event because some schools would close down so they didn't have to accpet blacks. This caused other kids to have to go to schools in different neighborhoods. -
Equal Rights Amendment
This is a social event because it created jobs for women.
