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The Brown Case
Know as 'The Vs Board of education' this was the first the law stated that all were created 'Seperate but equal' this establish the idea into the future of African-American rights. The case of brown was a supreme court case that ruled that schools could not be segregated racially because that when against the constitution.
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The murder of Emmett Till
African-American boy Emmett Till was only 14 years old when he was brutally murdered. He was bashed and then drowned after allegedly with a white female. https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-death-of-emmett-till (27/11/2018) Image: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmett_Till (27/11/2018) -
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Montgomery Bus Boycott
Only 4 days after Rosa Parks was arrested and fined for not giving up her bus seat to a white male, African-Americans started refusing to ride busses in Montgomery, Alabama in protest of segregated seating. This was the first large scale demonstration against segregation in the U.S https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/montgomery-bus-boycott (26/11/2018) -
The sit ins
The sit-ins were a movement that was started when African-American students staged a sit-in at a segregated Woolworths lunch counter. After they were refused service they refused to leave. This movement quickly spread to college towns all through the south. https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/the-greensboro-sit-in (27/11/2018)
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Freedom Riders
Freedom Riders were a group of white and African-American civil rights activists the took bus trips around South America to protest segregated bus terminals and similar. These groups were often confronted, treated violently and arrest by the police https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/freedom-rides (26/11/2018) -
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The Birmingham Campaign
Officially called "project C", the Birmingham Campaign was a movement to establish not violent, peaceful protests that would still get the message across. These protests included thing such as lunch counter sit-ins and the march on city hall. Martin Luther King Jr strongly supported this movement. The Birmingham Campaign was successful in causing the removal of 'white only' and 'black only' signs http://www.historyforkids.net/birmingham-campaign.html (27/11/2018) -
March on Washington
Most well know for Martin Luther King Jr's iconic "I have a dream" speech, the march of Washington was a giant protest consisting of 250,000 people gathered at the Lincoln memorial. The protested jobs and freedoms, trying to draw attention to the challenges and inequality that the African-Americans continuously faced.
https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/march-on-washington (26/11/2018)
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Civill Right Act
First proposed by President John F. Kennedy, the civil rights act stated that there was to be no segregation in public places and it banned employment discrimination based on race, colour, religious beliefs, sex or national origins. https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/civil-rights-act (27/11/2018)
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Little Rock Nine
9 African-American boys enrolled in a all white high school in Little Rock, Arkansas. The boys were trying to test the 'brown Vs. board of education' case. On the first day of school the boys were refused entry to the school. Later that month President Dwight D. Eisenhower sent the federal troops to escort the boys into the school.
https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/central-high-school-integration (27/11/2018)
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Voting Rights Act
This act gave African-Americans the ability to exercise their right to vote under the constitution.
https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/voting-rights-act (26/11/2018)
Image: http://macollegedems.org/the-intrinsic-failure-of-the-voting-rights-act-of-1965/ (27/11/2018)
