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the Court unanimously ruled (9-0) that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional -
Emmett Till was murdered in the late 50's, and shortly after being taken from his grandfather's home and beaten, shot in the head, and then thrown in a river while being tied to an wheel -
Rosa Parks, a 42-year-old NAACP secretary, was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama bus -
following intense segregationist resistance. After Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus used the National Guard to block them -
nonviolent sit-in at the whites-only lunch counter of a Greensboro, NC, Woolworth’s. After being denied service, they stayed until closing -
organized, interracial bus trips through the American South designed by CORE to challenge segregated interstate travel facilities. -
Written in 1963 from a Birmingham jail cell, Martin Luther King Jr.’s letter defends the strategy of nonviolent, direct action against segregation. -
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is a landmark federal law signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson on August 6, 1965, which prohibits racial discrimination in voting. It enforced the 15th Amendment, eliminating discriminatory tools like literacy tests and poll taxes -
a massive civil rights protest held on August 28, 1963, where over 250,000 people rallied in Washington, D.C -
On September 15, 1963, Ku Klux Klan members bombed the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, killing four African-American girls -
Ratified on January 23, 1964, the 24th Amendment to the US Constitution prohibits federal and state governments from requiring citizens to pay a tax (poll tax) to vote in federal elections. This amendment eliminated a significant financial barrier that had been used, particularly in the South -
roughly 600 civil rights marchers were brutally attacked by state troopers and deputies while peacefully crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama. Led by John Lewis and Hosea Williams -
outlawed segregation in public accommodations and banned employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin -
a landmark Supreme Court case that unanimously declared state-level bans on interracial marriage unconstitutional, invalidating all remaining anti-miscegenation laws in the U.S -
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968, at age 39, while standing on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. Shot by a sniper, he died from a severed spinal cord. Escaped convict James Earl Ray was arrested, pled guilty, and received a 99-year sentence, though conspiracy theories have persisted for decades
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