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Brown .vs. Board
it was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students unconstitutional and in the end the schools were desegergated -
Emmett Till
At age 14 he was murderd in Mississippi for flerting with a white women -
Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks, an African American woman, was arrested for refusing to surrender her seat to a white person -
Bus boycott
the boycott was a protest were african americans did not ride the bus for about 13 months -
SCLC
Dr. King invited about 60 black ministers and leaders to Ebenezer Church in Atlanta.Their goal was to form an organization to coordinate and support nonviolent direct action as a method of desegregating bus systems across the South. -
Little Rock Arkansas Central High School Integration
nine black students successfully enter Little Rock's Central High School with protection from the National Guard -
Greensboro, North carolina Woolworth's sit-in
Four african american students from north carolina state university sat dowm at the lunch counter inside the woolworth's store and order coffie.the lunch staff refused to serve them at the "whites only" counter and the store maneger ask them to leave but they stayed untiil the store closed. the falowing days more and more kept sitting there -
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Feedom riders
They intended to test the Supreme Court's ruling in Boynton v. Virginia (1960), which declared segregation in interstate bus and rail stations unconstitutional. -
James Meredith, University of mississippi
was the first African American student admitted to the segregated University of Mississippi. -
Birmimgham, Alabama protest - "Fire Hoses"- televised
was a movement organized by the SCLC to bring attention to the unequal treatment that black Americans in Birmingham, Alabama. Led by Martin Luther King, Jr. and others, the spring 1963 campaign of nonviolent direct actions culminated in widely publicized confrontations between black youth and white civic authorities -
MLK Aressted "letter from bimingham jail"
MLK wrorte a letter to plan a non-violent protest conducted by the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights and King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference against racial segregation by Birmingham's city government and downtown retailers -
"March On Washington"
It was one of the largest political rallies for human rights in U,S history. The march was organized by a group of civil rights, labor and religious oragizations under the theme " jobs and freedom". the number of participants varied from 200,000 to 300,000,75 to 80 percent of the marchers were black and the rest were white and non-black minorties -
24th Amendment to the constitution
prohibits both congress and the states from conditioning the right to vote in fedral elections on payment of a polle tax or others types of tax . -
Civil Rights Act 1964
this act outlawed major forms of discrimination aginst racial, ethinic,national and religioius minoritys and women. it ended unequal application of voter regerstraion requirements and racial segergation in schools, at the work place and by faciltys that served the genaral public -
Malcolm X Shot
Malcolm x was a african american muslim minister and human rights activist, he was know to be a courageous advocit for the rights of blacks . -
Voting Rights "Bloody sunday"
five hundred or so activists gathered to march from Selma, Alabama, to Montgomery to protest the denial of voting rights to blacks in the state. They didn’t make it. The march was attacked by state and local police, who were cheered on by crowds of white onlookers in an assault so brutal that it has come to be known as Bloody Sunday. -
Voteing RIghts Act
The Act prohibits states from imposing any "voting qualification or prerequisite to voting, or standard, practice, or procedure ... to deny or abridge the right of any citizen of the United States to vote on account of race or color. -
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Watts Riots
took place in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles from August The six-day riot resulted in 34 deaths, 1,032 injuries, 3,438 arrests, and over $40 million in property damage -
formation of the black panthers
was an African-American revolutionary socialist organization active in the United States from 1966 until 1982. The Black Panther Party achieved national and international notoriety through its involvement in the Black Power movement and U.S. politics of the 1960s and 1970s -
Stokely Carmichael - "Black power" - seattle
Carmichael's speech brought it into the spotlight and it became a rallying cry for young African Americans across the country was a Trinidadian-American black activist active in the 1960s American Civil Rights Movement -
MLK Assassination
He was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee many african americans took to the streets across the United States in a massive wave of riots. -
Civil Rights Act 1968
was a landmark piece of legislation in the United States that provided for equal housing opportunities regardless of race, creed or national origin. -
Democratic national convention - "the whole world is watching"
was an iconic chant by antiwar demonstrators outside the Chicago Hilton Hotel during the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. at the convention Demonstrators took up the chant as police were pulling some of them into paddy wagons, each with a superfluous whack of a nightstick after the demonstration blocked Michigan Avenue in front of the hotel
