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Civil Rights Movement
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Brown vs. Board of Education
The United States Supreme Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students unconstitutional. -
Emmitt Till
14-year-old Chicagoan Emmitt Till is kidnapped and brutally murdered. -
Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks, a 42-year-old African American woman, boarded a Montgomery bus and was told took give up her seat for a white man. She refused and was arrested. -
Sit In
4 black college stuents organized a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter. -
A Letter From A Birmingham Jail
Martin Luther King is arrested and jailed during anti-segregation protests in Birmingham, Alabama, writing the famous "Letter From Birmingham Jail." -
March On Washington
About 250,000 people, both black and white, marched to Washington to fight for civil rights, specifically equal job opportunities. -
I Have A Dream
Standing in from of the Lincoln Memorial, Martin Luther King Jr. ave his famous "I Have A Dream" speech. -
Church Bombings
4 young girls attending Sunday school are killed when a bomb goes off at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, a popular place for civil rights meetings. -
The 24th Amendment
An amendment is passed that abolished the poll tax, which made it harder for poor black voters to vote. -
Civil Rights Act
Lydon B Johnson passed the Civil Rights Act, ending unequal application of voter registration requirements and racial segregation in schools, at the workplace and by facilities that served the general public. -
Assassination of Malcolm X
Civil rights activist Malcolm X was assassinated by Nation of Islam member Thomas Hagan. -
Voting Rights Act
This act completely prohibited discrimination in voting. -
Assassination of MLK
Civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated by James Earl Ray, an extreme segregationist.
