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This was a class action case based on the fact that the time has come when schools should be desegregated because segregation affects the mental reasoning and self-worth of African American children. May 17, 1954
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Rosa Parks was arrested because she opposed to relinquishing her seat for a white fellow in a public transportation in Montgomery Alabama
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This took place 4days after Rosa was arrested. In this integration movement, black people walked or biked to their destination. rejecting to board buses the economy of Alabama was being tortured. the End of the movement was the legal end of segregation in buses
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9 students in the south were sent to a white-only school in a process of integrating_the state government in response to this event sent troops to stop them from entering the high school_As a result, the federal government sent marshals to guard these children throughout their day at school. The next year the school was shut down and re-opened the year after as an integrated school.
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This event happened in Greens boro where a group of college students was rejected service in a white-only restaurant/lunch counter, so they came largely in number the preceding days to occupy seats. This made restaurants lose customers because their restaurant was occupied with people they did not want to serve so they sold nothing.
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This movement is an action taken by the federal government to integrate or to stop segregation in interstate transportation and bus terminals or bus stops. The people in the bus got beaten up and another was bombed but no one died.
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In this non-violent protest against segregation, school children were the main protesters because they attracted more public attention and when sent to jail their families could still pay their bills, unlike when the breadwinner of the family was sent to jail.
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The March on Washington was a massive protest march that occurred in August 1963, when some 250,000 people gathered in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. Also known as the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, the event aimed to draw attention to continuing challenges and inequalities faced by African American's. In this even Martin Luther King Jr gave his "I Have a Dream" speach
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He was assassinated during a campaign visit to Texas by a Harvey who despised the country and what it stood for.
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Freedom Summer, or the Mississippi Summer Project, was a 1964 voter registration drive aimed at increasing the number of registered Black voters in Mississippi. By fighting against segregation in polls
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The 1964 Freedom Summer project was designed to draw the nation's attention to the violent oppression experienced by Mississippi blacks who attempted to exercise their constitutional rights and to develop a grassroots freedom movement that could be sustained after student activists left Mississippi. This movement was meant to increase the number of Black voters
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This legislative act of congress, signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson on July 2, 1964, prohibited discrimination in public places, provided for the integration of public schools and other public facilities, and made employment discrimination based on gender and race illegal.
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Fifty years ago, on March 7, 1965, hundreds of people gathered in Selma, Alabama to march to the capital city of Montgomery. They marched to ensure that African Americans could exercise their constitutional right to vote — even in the face of a segregationist system that wanted to make it impossible. This was the last large non-violent civil rights protest. The protesters were met with violence from authority which beat them with sticks. No one died immediately but many where injured.
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This act was signed into law on August 6, 1965, by President Lyndon Johnson. It outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War, including literacy tests as a prerequisite to voting such as poll tax. The passing of this act was prompted by the result of the Selma March.
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His assassination led to an outpouring of anger among Black Americans, as well as a period of national mourning that helped speed the way for an equal housing bill that would be the last significant legislative achievement of the civil rights era.