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Sit-ins (Greensboro, NC)
The Greensboro sit-ins were a series of nonviolent protests in Greensboro, North Carolina in 1960, which led to the Woolworth department store chain removing its policy of racial segregation in the Southern United States -
Jackie Robinson and the desegregation of baseball
After many years of segregation in sports, Jackie Robinson was welcomed into the world of baseball as the first african amercian player, -
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas
Court case defending the rights of black and white schools. -
Emmett Till
Emmett Till was beaten in a barn near his home and then take to a river, shot and trown in. This all heppened due to his "flirting" with a white woman. Or so some people said. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white male which lead to her arest and officially the buy boycott, -
Crisis in Little Rock
Segregation in school was a bit thing at the time. People always arguing over if shools should be segregated or not. In 1957 a groupd of black students were forced to attend a white school. -
Freedom Riders
On May 4, 1961, a group of 13 African-American and white civil rights activists launched the Freedom Rides, a series of bus trips through the American South to protest segregation in interstate bus terminals. -
Meredith and Ole Miss
The Ole Miss riot of 1962 was fought between Southern segregationist civilians and federal and state forces beginning the night of September 29, 1962 -
Civil Rights protest in Birmingham
The Birmingham campaign was a model of nonviolent direct action protest and, through the media, drew the world's attention to racial segregation in the South. -
March on Washington
A peacful march for jobs and rights. -
Birmingham Church Bombing
A church in burmingham, ostly acupied by black, was bombed due to racial dispute. -
Freedom Summer Project (Mississippi
On June 15, 1964, the first three hundred arrived. The next day, two of the white students, Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman, both from New York, and a local Afro-American, James Chaney, disappeared. -
Civil Rights
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Selma March
The three Selma to Montgomery marches in 1965 were part of the Voting Rights Movement underway in Selma, Alabama. -
Voting Rights Act
Martin Luther King Jr. Lead a peacefull march for rights to vote.
