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Rosa Parks & The Montgomery Bus Boycott
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. -
Brown Vs Board Of Education
Racial segregation of children in public schools was unconstitutional -
Emmet Till Murder
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 and Integration
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, -
Greensboro Woolworths Sit in
The Greensboro sit-ins were a series of nonviolent protests in February to July 1960, in the Woolworth store -
Freedom Rides
Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated Southern United States in 1961. -
24th Amedment
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’S letter from Birmingham Jail
MLK was upset about how blacks were getting treated by whites all because of a color.He then wrote the letter from the jail. -
March on Washington
The march was for Jobs and freedom. The purpose of the march was to advocate for the civil and economic rights of African Americans. -
Birmingham Baptist Church Bombing
The Baptist Church bombing was a white supremacist terrorist bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin -
“Bloody Sunday”/Selma to Montgomery March
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. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
It outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War. -
Loving v. Virginia
A case in which the Court held that the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits governments from discriminating against individuals on the basis of race.