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civil rights from 1950 to present day -
Board of education
the supreme court rules that segregated schools was unconsitutional , concluding"in the field of public education the doctrine" seperate but equal has no place. (economic) -
The murder
a 14 year old boy in chicago was visiting relatives in mississippi than he whistles at a white woman, her husband and his brother beat him and threw him in the river. then tied a metal fan around his neck. The people that had turned themselves in, claiming they did the crime, became innocent. (economic, political) -
Rosa Parks buses
Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat at the front of the "colored section" of a bus in Montgomery, Ala., to a white passenger, defying a southern custom of the time. In response to her arrest, the Montgomery black community launched a bus boycott that lasted over a year until the buses desegregated on Dec. 21, 1956.
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Buses desegregate
The buses desegregated from the movement that rosa parks had done. when she wouldnt give up her seat. (economic) -
Blocked Out from school
Integration was easier said than done at the formerly all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Ark. Nine black students, who became known as the "Little Rock Nine," were blocked from entering the school on the orders of Arkansas Governor Orval Fabus. (social, and economic) -
oklahoma sit in
35 members of the NAACP youth service sit at the lunchonette but are refushed to be waited on, When they return for their dsays work at the sit in they are served at the resteraunt (economic, and social) -
Children March
A march protesting school segregation, which attracts ocver 20,000 people to the lincoln memorial. (social, econmoic, and political) some of the people there jackie robinson, harry belafonte, corettascott king, which are delegated students led by belafonte refused a meeting with the president.(President Eisenhower) -
Sit-in movement
This had started from 4 guys (black) that had sat in a resteraunt and did a sit-in movement, which eventually had spread to over 55 cities in 13 states that started to do the same. (social, political) -
freedom rights
this non-violent protest is burlity stopped by many stops made along the way as both black and white travelers that are beaten and harrassed (social) -
Protest
Civil rights leaders protested in Birmingham, Alabama. teh effect was. Police arrested King, The police used dog and fire hoses on marchers, White leaders desegregated lunch counters, Removed segregation signs. (economic, and social) -
church bomb
White supremacists bombed the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama during Sunday services. Four young African-American girls were killed in the explosion. The church bombing was the third in 11 days, after the federal government had ordered the integration of Alabama's school system. (Social, Economic) -
Martin Luther King jr.
Martin Luther King jr. did a speech to end the segregation of the races, black and white. King said time and time in his speech one hundred years later the negro is still not free. (econmoic,political,and social) -
Voting act
This act eliminates discrimination in the area of voting, specifically outlawing poll taxes, literacy tests and the Grandfather Clause. (Political, Social, Economic) -
Martin luther king assanation
Martin Luther King Jr. had been shot and killed on the balcony of a motel in Memphis, Tennessee, where he had gone to support a sanitation workers' strike. King's death opened a huge rift between white and black Americans, as many blacks saw the killing as a rejection of their vigorous pursuit of equality through the nonviolent resistance he had championed. In more than 100 cities, several days of riots, burning and looting followed his death. (Social) -
Nikki Giovanni First Published Book
The first book Niki published was Black feeling Black Talk. (Social) -
President run
the advance of the civil rights movement had combined witht the rise of the fermist movement
