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Brown v. Board of Education
It was determined that it was wrong for schools to be segregated. The Supreme Court ruling took over a year. It was decided that all children had the same learning capacity. Race was not a factor in a childs ability to comprehend different subjects. This decision woulf\d go on to anger the KKK. -
Attacks of the KKK
After the ruling of the Supreme Court case of Brown v. Board of Education, there was a resurection of the KKK. The ruling made klansmen angry and they would launch a prolonged intimidation campaign. The attacks of violence and even murder actually helped African Americans more. This gave the black activists national attention and showed how there was no racial equality. -
The Murder of Emmett Till
Emmett Till is one of the most common examples of how Civil Rights for a person were ignored. He was from Chicago and went down to Mississippi to visit family. While there he whistled to a white woman and for doing that he was brutally murdered. To show what happened to her son. Emmett's mother had an open casket funeral. The sight was horrific. This is one event that lead to a change in Civil Rights for all. -
Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott
The Montgomery Bus Boycott lasted for about a year. It all started when Rosa Park refused to give up her seat to a White gentleman. At that time, African Americans were only allowed to sit in the back of the bus. Rosa Parks went against this and was arrested. -
Sit-ins
Sit-ins occured in places that were segragated. The NCAAP Youth Council organized one at a drug store in kansas. Three weeks later, the sit-ins were sucessful and most stores in Kansas were desegregated. More and More sit-ins occered and were sucessful. By the end of 1960, sit-ins were used in Southern and border state. Some went as far as Nevada. -
Remember the Titans
Remember the Titans is an American Sports classic that shows the tentions between African Americans and whites. Scenes of the movie depic what life was for highschools to be desegragated. A lot of fights occured and there were many protest by whites. Many Police officers would line the streets to keep African Americans and whites seperate from each other so no viloence would occur, -
Freedom Riders route
Freedom Riders set out to challenge laws in the South that segragated whites and blacks. First starting out with 13 members (7 blacks and 6 whites), there plan was to pair a white person with a black person in adjoining seats. Another tactic was to set one black person in the front of the bus whcih was against the law in segrgated states. They first started out in D.C. and made there way to Virginia, the Carolinas, Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi, ending in New Orleans, Louisiana. -
I Have A Dream Speech
This is the famous sppech that was given by Martin Luther King Jr. on the Lincoln Memorial. He gave it as an attempt to end rascim in the United States. He refered back to the Emancipation Proclamation at the beginning.
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Church Bombing in Birmingham
This bombing killed four little African American girls. This was renamed to "Bombingham" because of the amounts of bombs that would go off in the town. These bombs were set by unknown terrorists. These four girls were accused of going against white supremacy. -
The Civil Rights Act
In the Summer of 1964, president Johnson signed a bill that was passed by congrees for Civil Rights. The bill outlawed the discrimination against racial, ethnic, national and religious minorities, and women.
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Bloody Sunday
This was the first march of three marches on the way from Selma to Montgomery. The march was going goosd until the protesters crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge. They were greeted by barage of state troopers. The commanding officer John Cloud told the protesters to go home. Reverend Williams tried to reason with Cloud but he wouldn't have it. instantly deputies started shoving them and started beating them. -
Martin Luther King Jr. is Killed
On April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was shot and killed. He was shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis. James Earl Ray was the shooter who was a fugitive from the Missouri State Penitentiary. He was arrested in London and was sent back to the United States where he was convicted of the crime. -
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