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Brown v. Board of Education was a Supreme Court case that unanimously ruled that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional and violated the 14th amendment -
Nine African American students who integrated Little Rock Central High School in 1957. -
A 14-year-old African American boy was brutally murdered in Drew, Mississippi, on August 28, 1955. He was lynched by two white men. -
When Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat on December 1, 1955 it sparked the 382-day Montgomery Bus Boycott protest against segregated public transportation. -
A pivotal civil rights protest that began on February 1, 1960, when four Black college freshmen sat at the "whites-only" lunch counter and were refused service. -
Series of bus trips in 1961 by integrated groups of civil rights activists who rode through the American South to protest segregated interstate bus terminals. -
The Letter from Birmingham Jail was written by Martin Luther King Jr. in response to criticism from white religious leaders while imprisoned. -
Prohibits both Congress and the states from requiring the payment of a poll tax or any other tax to vote in federal elections. -
Massive protest on August 28, 1963, in Washington, D.C., to advocate for the civil and economic rights of Black Americans. -
Terrorist bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. It was committed by the white terrorist group, Ku Klux Klan. -
Violent attack on Civil rights marchers. -
Law that outlawed discrimination -
Federal law that prohibits racial discrimination in voting. -
Supreme Court case that declared state laws banning interracial marriage unconstitutional.