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Brown v. Board of Education Ruling
The Supreme Court ruled that separtate schools can never be equal and ordered schools to desegregate. This followed an African American family suing the Topeka Board of Education for not allowing thier daughter to attend the school. -
Rosa Parks and the Bus Boycotts
Rosa Parks refused to give her bus seat up to a white man and was arrested, which caused a group of African Americans to organize a bus boycott. -
Crisis in Little Rock
The first day of thee school year in Little Rock, Arkansas when the governor refused to desegregate the school district and stopped African American students from attending Central High School. -
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Greensboro Lunch Counter Sit Ins
Four African American college students sat in at the Woolworths white-only lunch counter in Greensboro, NC to draw attention to civil rights movement. At the end of this period the owners were forced to desegregate all their restaurants, which caused them to lose 1/3 of thier business. -
Children's Maches in Birmingham
President Kennedy ordered 3,000 army troops to restore peace in Birmingham, Alabama after the police force turned violent on the thousands of children who marched there with King. -
I Have a Dream
A quarter of a million people massed near the Lincoln Memorial to hear Martin Luther King Jr. deliver his most famous and inspiring speech. -
Civil Rights Act
The act was enacted that outlawed segregation in public facilities and banned discrimination in employment based on a person's race, gender, religion, or nationality. -
Bloody Sunday
About 600 people began a march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. They were violently prevented from entering by helmeted state troopers. When this became public knowledge, millions of people across America finally realized what the civil rights movement was actually trying to do. -
Voting Rights Act
After a few weeks of a rapid sequence of events, President Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act which outlawed literacy tests, poll taxes, and other obstacles to black voter registration. King and John Lewis were present for the signing of the act. -
Martin Luther King Assassination
Martin Luther King Jr. was shot to death in Memphis, Tennessee by white man James Earl Ray, who was arrested and convicted.
