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Martin Luther King, Jr.
The man who changed what it meant to be an American. He was the face of civil rights. A small Babtist preacher soon became an American Preacher. He marched with his peers without fighting back to the violence. He gave a famous Speech. "I have a dream". -
James Meredith
A man that was highly academic scholar. But was discriminated from going to the college of his school. The supreme court found that he was acedemically alloud for that school they allowed him -
Brown vs. Board of Education
For decades schools were segragated. It caused uproar when it was finally unconstitutional and banned. What sparked the Dynamite was a 7year old girl named lynda had to walk 1.6km away. But there was a school 6 blocks away. It was challenged and led to illegal Segregation. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Martin luther king and many other blacks boycotted the busses in Montogomery to have the right to sit anywhere. On December 20 1956 a law passed to where you could sit anywhere. -
The March on Washington
Over 1,200 buses traveled to Washington D.C for Rights and Freedom About 200,000 People attended 75to80% Being black rest were white or minority. The march consisted of the famous speech "I have A Dream". -
24th Amendment
The Twenty-fourth Amendment (Amendment XXIV) prohibits both Congress and the states from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax or other types of tax. The amendment was proposed by Congress to the states on August 27, 1962, and was ratified by the states on January 23, 1964. -
Freedom Riders
Freedom Riders were brave men and women who were beaten jailed and tortured for sitting in the front of the bus. They were Brave and fought nonviolently for freedom -
Freedom Summer
Freedom Summer (also known as the Mississippi Summer Project) was a campaign in the United States launched in June 1964 to attempt to register as many African American voters as possible in Mississippi, which had historically excluded most blacks from voting. The project also set up dozens of Freedom Schools, Freedom Houses, and community centers in small towns throughout Mississippi to aid the local black population. -
March on Selma
Refered as Bloody Sunday thousands of blacks marched for freedom and protesting. 600 protested for the death of Jimmie Lee Jackson. The second march was over a bridge and for voting rights. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Under President Lyndon B. Johnson the government proposed a bill to the senate which was later passed in the month of july. This Bill gave African Americans the right to not be harrased or challenged at the voting booth.
