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Brown v. Board of Education
1954 Supreme Court case in which racial segregation in public schools was outlawed -
Montgomery bus boycott
Protest in 1955–1956 by African Americans against racial segregation in the bus system of Montgomery, Alabama -
Woolworth's sit-in
Franklin McCain was one of the four young men who shoved history forward by refusing to budge. McCain remembers the anxiety he felt when he went to the store that Monday afternoon, the plan he and his friends had devised to launch their protest and how he felt when he sat down on that stool. -
Freedom Rides
1961 event organized by CORE and SNCC in which an interracial group of civil rights activists tested southern states' compliance to the Supreme Court ban of segregation on interstate buses -
Birmingham Children's March and boycott
On Palm Sunday, Birmingham pastors Revs. N. H. Smith, A.D. King and John T. Porter led 2000 people in a downtown march to support their jailed colleagues. After the march the three knelt to pray at the corner of Kelly Ingram Park when they were confronted by Birmingham Public Safety Commissioner Eugene ‘Bull’ Connor and police officers with billy clubs and police dogs. -
March on Washington
1963 civil rights demonstration in Washington, D.C., in which protesters called for “jobs and freedom” -
Selma to Montgomery March
The Selma to Montgomery marches were three marches in 1965 that marked the political and emotional peak of the American civil rights movement.
