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When Rosa Parks (a african american woman) refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man in Montgomery Alabama.Her actions inspired the bus boycott. -
Racial segregation of children in public schools was unconstitutional -
while visiting family in Money, Mississippi 14year old Emmett Till, an African American from Chicago is brutally murdered for allegedly flirting with a white woman in a gas station , The womans husband and Brother murdered him and put his body in water. -
The Little Rock Nine was a group of nine African American students in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. Their enrollment was followed by the Little Rock Crisis, -
The Greensboro sit-ins were a series of nonviolent protests in February to July 1960, in the Woolworth store -
Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated Southern United States in 1961. -
The Twenty-fifth Amendment (Amendment XXV) to the United States Constitution says that if the President becomes unable to do his job, the Vice President becomes the President (Section 1) or Acting President (Sections 3 or 4). -
MLK was upset about how blacks were getting treated by whites all because of a color.He then wrote the letter from the jail. -
The march was for Jobs and freedom. The purpose of the march was to advocate for the civil and economic rights of African Americans. -
The Baptist Church bombing was a white supremacist terrorist bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church. -
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin -
600 civil rights marchers headed east out of Selma on U.S. Route 80. They got only six blocks away, where state and local lawmen attacked them with billy clubs and tear gas and drove them back into Selma. -
It outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War. -
A case in which the Court held that the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits governments from discriminating against individuals on the basis of race.