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The Civil Rights Movement
In this time period, African-Americans decided enough was enough. They decided to fight for basic human rights. This is a battle still in present day. -
Supreme Court Rule
In the Dred Scott case, the U.S. Supreme Court denied constitutional rights and citizenship to all African-Americans. This legally made African-Americans "subordinate, inferior beings -- whether slave or freedmen." -
Emancipation Proclamation
An executive order was issued by President Lincoln that freed all slaves that in the Confederacy. -
Brown v. Board of Education
The United States Supreme Court declared that laws that made separate public schools for white and African-American students to be unconstitutional. -
Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama city bus to a white man. The seat was in the "colored" section of the bus. The white section was full. -
The Montgomery Bus Boycott
A majority of Montgomery, Alabama African-American citizens refused to use public bus transportation. They demanded that seating be desegregated on a first-come, first-serve basis. This boycott lasted thirteen months. It ended with a Supreme Court ruling that segregation on public buses was and is unconstitutional. -
The Birmingham Campaign
Organized nonviolent sit-ins and marches that eventually involved students began to provoke mass arrests. The Birmingham police department used high-pressure water hoses and police dogs to attack protesters. -
March on Washington
Martin Luther King Jr. gives his "I have a Dream" speech to fight for the rights for African-American citizens. Well over 200,000 people attended. -
16th Street Baptist Church Bombing
The Ku Klux Klan blew up the 16th Street Baptist Church and murdered four innocent children named: Addie Colllins, Cynthia Wesley, Carole Robertson, and Carol Denise. They injured many more. They chose the church because it was a meeting place for protesters. -
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
This law outlaws discrimination based on color, race, religion, sex, or national origin. This caused schools, employment, restaurants, public places and accommodations to no longer be allowed to be segregated. -
Bloody Sunday
State troopers attacked unarmed peaceful activists with tear gas and billy clubs as they marched from Selma, Alabama to Montgomery, Alabama for voting rights.
