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Brown v. Board of Education decision.
The Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka was a landmark United States Supreme Court case acknowledge the state laws that separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. -
Federal troops were sent to protect the Little Rock 9
The Little Rock 9 were nine African Americans students that enrolled in Little Rock Central High School at Arkansas, in 1957. The governor of Arkansas refused to let the students in the school. At the time president Eisenhower sent federal troops to guard them on their first day at school. -
The sit-ins are hosted.
In Greensboro,North Carolina, in 1960. Sit-ins were a form of protest. People would absorb the space and would refuse to leave until there demands were met. These four young African Americans were the first to begin. -
The freedoms riders.
In the southern parts of the United States, in 1961. Freedom riders mostly civil rights activists who rode buses into segregated parts to challenge the supreme court. Which concluded that segregated public buses. -
The March on Washington.
The March on Washington was held at Washington, D.C. on the 28th, 1963. To stand up for jobs and freedom. Martin Luther King Jr. made and spoke out that day. Becoming the most famous day because of his speech, "I had a dream." -
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
The Civil Rights Act of 1964, is a landmark civil rights.One of the biggest achievements. It condemns discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin in public place and banned employment discrimination. -
Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated
Martin Luther King Jr. was a Baptist minister and the voice of the civil rights movement. He was assassinated in Tennessee,1968 because it made others angry that he was speeding up the civil rights movement for the African American.
