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  • Brown vs. Board of Education

    Brown vs. Board of Education

    A Supreme Court case in which the justices ruled unanimously that racial segregation of children in public schools .
  • Emmett Till Murder

    Emmett Till Murder

    a 14-year old African American boy, was murdered
  • Rosa Parks & the Montgomery Bus Boycott

    Rosa Parks & the Montgomery Bus Boycott

    A boycott that started Rosa Parks & the Montgomery Bus Boycott to segregation
  • The Little Rock Nine and Integration

    The Little Rock Nine and Integration

    a group of 9 black students went to a only whites school &
    the first african american students
  • Greensboro Woolworth's Sit-ins

    Greensboro Woolworth's Sit-ins

    an african american student went to a lunch counter in greensboro
    and they wouldn't serve her so she refused to leave
  • Freedom Rides

    Freedom Rides

    Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated Southern United States in 1961 .
  • MLK’s Letter From Birmingham Jail

    MLK’s Letter From Birmingham Jail

    a letter wrote by MLK in jail because criticism
  • March on Washington

    March on Washington

    On 28 August 1963, more than 200,000 demonstrators took part in the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in the nation's capital
  • Birmingham Baptist Church Bombing

    Birmingham Baptist Church Bombing

    an explosion at a church that killed four girls and injured between 14 and 22 other people.
  • 24th Amendment

    24th Amendment

    the 24th Amendment, outlawing the poll tax as a voting requirement in federal elections
  • civil rights act 1964

    civil rights act 1964

    The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex
  • Bloody Sunday”/Selma to Montgomery March

    Bloody Sunday”/Selma to Montgomery March

    600 civil rights marchers headed east out of Selma
  • Voting Rights Act of 1965

    Voting Rights Act of 1965

    It outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War
  • Loving v. Virginia

    Loving v. Virginia

    equal protection and due process clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment.