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Omaha Riots
The Omaha race riot occurred in Omaha, Nebraska. The race riot resulted in the lynching of Will Brown, a black civilian; the death of two white rioters; the injuries of many Omaha Police Department officers and civilians, including the attempted hanging of Mayor Edward Parsons Smith; and a public rampage by thousands of white rioters who set fire to the Douglas County Courthouse in downtown Omaha and Of the 120 persons indicted for involvement in the riot. -
Brown v. Board of Education.
Was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that U.S. state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional.
It was from Dec 9, 1952 – May 17, 1954.
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The Montgomery Bus Boycott.
The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama. -
Integration of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas.
The Little Rock Nine was a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. Their enrollment was followed by the Little Rock Crisis. -
Greensboro Lunch Counter Sit-ins.
Some young people from Greensboro, North Carolina went to a restaurant and were denied food but they deigned to leave and it was shocking news that reached university cities throughout the South. -
Freedom Riders.
Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated Southern United States in 1961 and subsequent years to challenge the non-enforcement of the United States Supreme. -
March on Washington.
The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, also known as the March on Washington or The Great March on Washington, was held in Washington, D.C. -
Freedom Summer.
Was a volunteer campaign in the United States launched in June 1964 to attempt to register as many African-American voters as possible in Mississippi. Over 700 mostly white volunteers joined African Americans in Mississippi to fight against voter intimidation and discrimination at the polls. -
Voting Rights Act.
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is a landmark piece of federal legislation in the United States that prohibits racial discrimination in voting. -
Watts Riots
The Watts Rebellion, also known as the Watts Riots, was a large series of riots that broke out on August 11, 1965, in the predominantly Black neighborhood of Watts in Los Angeles. The riot spurred from an incident on August 11, 1965, when Marquette Frye, a young African American motorist, was pulled over and arrested by Lee W. Minikus, a white California Highway Patrolman, for suspicion of driving while intoxicated. -
Founding of the Black Panther Party
The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense (BPP) was founded in October 1966 in Oakland, California by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale, who met at Merritt College in Oakland. It was a revolutionary organization with an ideology of Black nationalism, socialism, and armed self-defense, particularly against police brutality. -
Release of The Kerner Commission Report
The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense (BPP) was founded in October 1966 in Oakland, California by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale, who met at Merritt College in Oakland National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, known as the Kerner Commission after its chair, Governor Otto Kerner Jr. of Illinois, was an 11-member Presidential Commission established by President Lyndon B. -
Martin Luther King Assassination Riots
The assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., racial inequality. It took place in Washington, D.C.The King-assassination riots, also known as the Holy Week Uprising, was a wave of civil disturbance which swept the United States following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4, 1968.
