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Brown vs. Board of Education
A case that ended the separate but equal schools and segregation laws , Linda Brown's parents sued the Topeka Board of Education when she could not attend the school there. -
Bus Boycott
African Americans or anyone who opposed segregation stopped riding the bus to project a message against segregation and until they change their basis to "first come, first serve". This started after Rosa Parks was arrested for an unjust act upon the bus. -
Crisis in Little Rock
Governor of Arkansas disobeys the Supreme Court's desegregation law. Also Arkansas police and the Arkansas National Guard stopped African American students from entering the school. President orders the army to escort the African American students into the school as a result. -
civil disobedience / nonviolent protest
Refusing to obey laws to change them and to do it peacefully -
The Children’s Marches
After MLK was released from jail, many of the former movement participators gave up not to risk arrest. To make up for the loss, many of the youth hit the streets and joined the march. -
Birmingham, Alabama
Where the Civil Rights movement focused its attention in the summer of 1962. At the time, the city faced harsh segregation laws Birmingham was one of the most racially divided cities in america where the KKK put a bomb in a Baptist Church. Its killed 4 people. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
After President Kennedy was assassinated, Vice LBJ became the new president passing the strongest Civil Rights law in history. It banned any sort of segregation. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
In 1965, President LBJ passed the Voting Rights Act of 1965 giving african americans the right to vote. -
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Dr. Martin Luther King jr.
led the bus boycott and believed in non-violent protests. This publicized him and made him the leader he was and Become the national Civil Rights leader -
Dr. King’s assassination
King's assassination made many of his supporters lose faith and caused the exact opposite of this goal: they started preaching hostility, not peace, among races
