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Started happening in more and more places
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Racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional. -
Rosa parks refused to stand up for a white person on bus. Started the Montgumery boycott. -
Political and social protest campaigns -
9 African American students integrated central High School, which was an all white school -
Became one of the most prominent voices of Black Nationalism and the Nation of Islam in the 1960s. He advocated for black self-sufficiency, self-defense, and the rejection of integration with white society, differing from Martin Luther King Jr.’s philosophy of nonviolence and integration. -
These tests were almost impossible to past and were unfair. The main goal was to prevent African Americans to vote.
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A group of African American students from the Agricultural American students. They remained seated until closing and returned the next day with 20 other black students. The sit in grew. -
He was the youngest president to be elected. He defined Civil rights as a moral issue and announced legislation to end segregation in schools -
A group of 7 African Americans and six white people who boarded two buses bound for New Orleans. Testing the Supreme Court. The bus was firebombed and the riders were beaten. -
KKK bombed a bus full of white and black Americans. The black Americans were peacefully protesting. -
Stood in the doorway of the university of Alabama in an attempt to block the admission of two African American students. -
King and the southern Christian leadership conference joined with Birmingham in a massive direct campaign to attack the city’s segregation system. -
Gave his “I have a dream speech” on the Lincoln memorial steps. Promoting desegregation. -
More than a quarter million people participated in the march for jobs and freedoms -
A bomb kills four young girls and injures many others prior to Sunday services. -
John f Kennedy was shot while riding in the president motorcade through the plaza in Dallas Texas -
He signed into the Civil rights act. Fought poverty. Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps, clean air act -
Eliminated literacy tests and other baddies for voting registration. This significantly increased African American voter turnout -
outlawed segregation in businesses.
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Declared bus segregation unconstitutional, helping to dismantle the legal structure of segregation in public transportation -
Nonviolent activist were beat and even killed for protesting. Trying to have a simple conversation with Major John cloud.
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Black religious leader is assassinated during a rally by member of the Nation Islam -
The Selma to Montgomery marches were three protest marches, held in 1965, along the 54-mile highway from Selma, Alabama, to the state capital of Montgomery. -
A white policeman arrests a black man of suspicion of driving intoxication. Violence resulted in 34 deaths, more than 1,000 injuries and $40 million property damage -
Fought to address police brutality, racism, and social injustice through self defense. -
Stating that the laws banning interracial marriage were unconstitutional. This expanded the rights of individuals to marry whomever they choose. -
Martin Luther King Jr. was shot at the Lorraine Hotel in Memphis Tennessee, on the second floor balcony -
Providing equal housing opportunity regardless of race, religion or national origin.
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The first African American to play Major League Baseball. “You have made every negro in America proud through your baseball prowess and your flexible demand for equal opportunity for all”
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