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Outlawed racial segregation in public schools.
On this date the Supreme Court, had issued that segregation in public schools was now eliegle. -
Boycott
At this time was instigated by Rosa Parks by refusing to give up her seat to a white man. -
Trying knew things in a white school
The Local school board of Little Rock had admitted nine black students to the citys all white Central High School. They had been need to enter with federal troops to protect them. -
Becoming presedent of the SCLC
The SCLC is the Southern Chrisitan Leadership Conference, and Martin LutherKing was an SCLC head. He would later become a central leader in the big civil rights movment. -
Sitting in
An organization had been created and that was to have sit ins at local Woolworths lunch counter to protest. -
Freedom Riders
The Freedom Riders had boarded buses in Washing ton and had been beaten, arrested, and once had their bus burned, when they had entered in Virginia. -
Blocking Black students
An Alabama governor who had tried to block black students from enrolling in the University of Alabama. -
Voting Rights Act
This had given blacks the right to vote. In this roces Three activists lost their lives, durin th Selma Dmonstrations, which was one of the two events. This one event was the march from Selma -
Martin Luther King is assaninated
He was giving a speech in Memphis when he was shot. -
The Black Militancy
After this the rise of the black militancy had taken order, and the civil rights mvement had begun losing momentum. -
Short of black students in public schools with whites.
As of late 1969 only 1 pecen of the black studentsis in the Deep South States were attendin publicc schools hith whites.
