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Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas
the Supreme Court rules unanimously against school segregation -
Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat on a Montgomery Alabama bus to a white person -
Montgomery bus boycot
followowing Rosa Park, the Montgomery bus Boycott was when African Americans refused to use the Mongtgomery buses to protest segregated seats -
voting rights
After the protest walk from selma to montgomery, the voting rights act is passed allowing African Americans to vote without having any disturbances -
sit in movement
protest by African American students at a segregated Woolworth's lunch in Greensboro, started the sit-in movement that soon spread to college towns throughout, -
Fredom Riders
civil rights workers bot African Amercian and white rode buses across country testing or proving the new desegregation law -
I Have a Dream speech
in Washington D.C. martin luther king jr gives his 'I Have a Dream' speech at the largest civil right demonstration ever. -
Civil Rights Act
President johnson signs the civil rights act, which gives thefederal government power to prosectue discrimination -
nobel peace prize
Martin Luther King jr. is the youngest man to be awarded with the nobel peace prize -
Assasination of MLK
at age 39, Marting Luther King jr. is assasinated standing on the balcony of his hotel room.
