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civil right moments

  • Sit-ins

    Sit-ins
    There's a lot of sit in protesters from the south reaching more than 65 cities in the 12 states.Around 50,000 young people join this protest each year.
  • Cruel issue

    Cruel issue
    By the 1960's presidential campaign ,civil rights had became a cruel issue and Martin Luther King lead a protest just a few week before this cruel issue had become a issue.
  • Non-Violance

    Non-Violance
    The students of non violence was having a conference that was organized by a collage student and her name was Ella Baker at Shaw University that is at North Carolina.
  • Black people did have rights to vote

    Black people did have rights to vote
    The Americans in the south were denied the right to vote and also subjected to insults and violence and could not except justice for the courts
  • the congress of racial equality (core)

    the congress of racial equality (core)
    Integrate freedom rides refused to obey segregation in interstate transportation. The freedom riders were arrested in north Carolina and also in south Carolina freedom riders were beaten and in Alabama freedom riders were attacked with baseball bats and tire irons and the buses were caught on fire
  • Protest

    Protest
    Martin Luther King held a protest in Birmingham Alabama which the king called it the most sargated city in america.
  • 200,000 and more people

    200,000 and more people
    200,000 and more people of all races celebrated the continental of Emancipation proclamation by joining in to a march caused by George Washington for the right of freedom and also jobs.
  • Supreme court

    Supreme court
    The supreme court ruled without a choice at brown v board of education that black and white people were aloud to go to public schools
  • Freedom summer

    Freedom summer
    The brought volunteers from a crossed the country's so that the could register for black people to vote. A lot of civil rights workers were arrested and harassed also three of them civil rights workers were murdered.
  • The federal government

    The federal government
    The federal government over looked the voting registrations and elections and so it expanded the voting rights for the non-English Americans.