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The Civil Rights Movement
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Thurgood Marshall
His most important case was Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, which ended school education. Black and white students had to go to seperate schools as long as the school were equal. In reality though the schools were un-equal.Thurgood agrued that if the schools were "equal" why couldn't the students attend the same schools. The Supreme court agreed, saying all seperated education facillities are unequal. -
Emmet Till
Emmet was an African American child (14) who was murdered by two whit men because they had claimed he whistled at a white woman. This had a powerful effect on acivil rights activists. Medgar Evers, and the NAACP also got involved. The case was taken to an all white jury, and the men that had murdered Emmet werent punished. Later, the men even had bragged about killing him. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
The Montgomery Bus Boycott was where the blacks of Montgomery decided they would boycott a bus, so they can sit anywhere they wanted. Rosa Parks got on a bus, and sat with a few fellow black people. The white peoples seats were all tooken up, so the blacks had to move. The three people Rosa was sitting with listened, but Rosa Parks refused to get up. She was then arrested. E.D. Nixon got her out and said together we can break segrigation. -
The Little Rock Nine
This group of teenagers were the first African American teenagers to attend an all white school. They challenged segrigation and won. Many schools outlawed segrigation, but some school systems defied the law, and threatened black students. The government ordered the national guard to block the school. Angry crowds of whites also insulted them every day at school. They didn't give up, and several went on to graduated. The Rocky Nine challenged a racist system and defeated it. Read mor -
Sit Ins
On this day 4 African American men went to a company store, purchased supplies, went to the lunch counter and asked to be served. They knew they probably would not be. when they left the store they still weren't served.The first sit in had very little effect, but the next day, they gathered a bigger group of students and the civil rights orginization began to spread. a group of students would go to a lunch counter and ask to be served. If they were, they'd move on to the next lunch counter. -
Montgomery March
On the 25 of March, Martin Luther King led thousands of nonviolent demonstrators to the capitol in Montgomery, Alabama, after a 5-day, 54-mile march from Selma, Alabama. the focus of its efforts to register black voters in the South. protesters attempting to march from Selma to the state capital of Montgomery were met with violent resistance by state and local authorities.A voting Rights Act was passed later that year. -
Voting rights Act
President Johnson passed this act because he thought the it was wrong to have fellow Americans not have the right to vote. Congress realised that Johnson would not back down on this issue.The Act was passed. It outlawed literacy tests and poll taxes as a way of assessing whether anyone was fit or unfit to vote. Johnson thought that as long as you were an American citizen and your name on a electorial vote you would be fine. -
Martin Luther King JR
Martin Luther King Junior was a civil rights leader. He first emerged as a leader at the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Martin Luther King held strong to his beliefs, even as he saw the Civil Rights Movement being torn in two. He was assasinated on April 4, Everyone was so upset, violence followed. Groups of blacks raged the streets causeing riots.
