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Linda Brown
Linda Brown who lives in Kansas has to travel by bus to a further a way african american school even though and lives in walking distance of an a white school. -
Highlander Folks School
The Highlander Folks School in Tennasee organized protests for civil rights workers. -
Brown VS. Board
The court decided that it is illegal to have segregation in schools and deemed it unconstitutional. -
Rosa Parks
Attended a workshop for civil rights organizers at the Highlander Old Folks School. -
Emmett Till
A 14 year old african american boy was killed in Mississippi who was supposidly whistling at a white woman. -
Martin Luthern King
Martin Luther King helped found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.The goal was to help fight for civil rights, He becomes nominated for president of the organization. -
Cooper VS Aaron
The Supreme Court rules out a threat of mob violence is not enough reason to delay school desegregation. -
4 Young Men
4 African American Men sit down at a whites only counter in a resturant located in greensboro. they were denied coffee and so they sat quietly for a whole day there. -
University of Mississippi
The supreme court rules that the university of Mississipi must admit African- Americn student and veteran James Meredith. -
Sothern Christian Leadership Conference
The southern Christian Leadership Conference orgaized a series of protests to challenge segregation in Birmingham Alabama. -
John F Kennedy
Violence with police dogs and civil rights movenment pushed JFk to be more involved in the Civil RIghts movement after a 17 year old activist got attacked by police dogs. -
March on Washington
March on Washington was a organzied protest that was baised off of racial unrest and civil rights -
Organization of Afro-American Unity
Malcolm X founds the Organization of Afro- American unity the point of this was unite African Americans from discrimintationn. -
Martin Luther King
Martin Luther King launches a voting rights campaign in Selma, Alabama, a city that only 355 of 15,000 black residents have managed to register to vote. -
The Voting Rights act
The Voting Acts Rights took away the barriers that preveted African Americans from expressing thier right under the 15th amendment.
