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Civil war started
The civil war happened in the spring of 1861.Decades of feuding between the north and the south america over federal authority and westward expansion and slavery, -
Founding Of NAACP
The NAACP was founded in 1909 by a group of multi-racial activists. The NAACP started to fight injustices in 1910 with the Pink Franklin case. -
brown vs. Board of Education (BOE)
Brown vs. BOE was the dispute between the BOE and the plaintiff Oliver Brown. Brown filed against the Topeka, Kansas school board. Brown was a parent of a black kid that wasnt alowed into the school. -
The murder of Emmett Till
Emmett TIll whistled at a whie woman in a grocery store in Mississippi. Three days later two white men beat him and shot him in the head -
Rosa Parks arrested
After a long day at work a black woman named Rosa Parks sat down. A white man told her to give up her seat to him and she said no. She was arrested. -
The little Rock 9
On september 4,1957 9 black students tried to enter an all white school know as Central High School in Little Rock. But they were tured away by the National Guard. They were eventualy alowed in. -
Martin Luther King Jr. Speech
I have a dream speech Martin Luther King Jr. Gave a speech called I have a dream speech. It became one of the most famous speeches in the world. -
loving vs Virginia
A white man and a black woman got married and went back home to Virginia. At the October Term, 1958, of the Circuit Court of Caroline County, a grand jury issued an indictment charging the Lovings with violating Virginia's ban on interracial marriages. -
Martin Luther King Jr. assassination (MLK)
MLK was assassinated on April 4, 1968 at the age of 39. He was shot by James Earl Ray while visiting Memphis, Tennessee.
