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Supreme Court case that ruled state-sponsored segregation in public schools unconstitutional, overturning the "separate but equal" -
Around August 28 he was kidnapped beaten and was shot in the head and had a large metal fan tied to his neck -
Montgomery Bus Boycott, a pivotal mass protest where Black citizens refused to ride city buses, leading to a Supreme Court ruling against bus segregation and launching the modern Civil Rights Movement with Martin Luther King Jr. as a key leader -
The Little Rock Nine were nine African American students who bravely integrated Little Rock Central High School in 1957 -
The Greensboro Woolworth's Sit-ins started February 1, 1960, when four Black AT University students -
The Freedom Rides were a series of nonviolent protests in 1961 where interracial groups of activists rode buses through the American South to challenge the segregation of interstate bus terminals -
Martin Luther King Jr.'s Letter from Birmingham Jail 1963 is a powerful defense of nonviolent direct action in the Civil Rights Movement, written from jail to moderate white clergymen who criticized his protests as "unwise and untimely" -
legislation outlawing discriminatory voting practices like literacy tests, poll taxes, and intimidation that prevented African Americans and minorities from voting, enforcing the 15th Amendment by authorizing federal oversight and examiners in discriminatory areas -
A 1963 peaceful protest in Washington, D.C. that drew an estimated 250,000 people to advocate for civil and economic rights for African Americans -
The Birmingham Baptist Church Bombing (specifically the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing on Sept 15, 1963 was a horrific act by KKK members targeting a prominent Black church -
The Twenty-fourth Amendment. The Amendment XXIV of the United States Constitution prohibits both Congress and the states from requiring the payment of a poll tax or any other tax to vote in federal elections -
That outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin, ending segregation in public places ensuring equal employment opportunities, and integrating schools and public facilities -
Was the violent attack on peaceful civil rights marchers led by John Lewis, attempting to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama -
landmark Supreme Court case that declared state laws banning interracial marriage unconstitutional