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Thurgood Marshall was an American lawyer and was an Associate Justice of The Supreme Court. He contributed to the Civil rights movement by being the first African American Justice.
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Accordingly, the NAACP's mission is to ensure the political, educational, and equality of minority group citizens of States and to eliminate race prejudice. The NAACP works to remove all barriers to racial discrimination through democratic processes.
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Rosa Parks was nationally remembered for refusing to give up her seat on the bus and was later arrested for that action and started an uprising leading to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr leading the march in Washington D.C.
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Medgar Evers was a part of the civil rights movement and he actually was turned away from a poll by gunpoint making him realize how badly they were being treated. He contributed to the civil rights movement by becoming president of the Reginal Council of Negro Leadership. Medgar Evers | NAACP -
James Meredith, (born June 25, 1933, Kosciusko, Mississippi, U.S.), an American civil rights activist who gained national renown at a key juncture in the civil rights movement in 1962, when he became the first African American student at the University of Mississippi.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Meredith -
John Lewis was one of the "Big Six" leaders of the civil rights movement around the 1960s and was really important and apparently was a part of the “Bloody Sunday”. John Lewis was a freedom rider and was really important to the civil rights movement when he entered congress.
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Stokely Carmichael was a prominent organizer of the civil rights movement and was a huge contributor and did many things like Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee also known as the (SNCC). He was a big contributor to the civil rights movement and he was a reason we are where we are now.
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Emmett Till was a 14-year-old boy who traveled to Mississippi and was accused by a white person of harassing a white woman by whistling at her was later that night beaten to death by white people and the sight was gruesome and was a real eye-opener.
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Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), interracial American organization established by James Farmer in 1942 to improve race relations and end discriminatory policies through direct-action projects. https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/congress-of-racial-equality -
Executive Order 9981 was to allow everyone in the armed forces to be treated equally no matter what can't even discriminate against people by race https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/executive-order-9981#:~:text=Executive%20Order%209981%20stated%20that,Services%20to%20recommend%20revisions%20to -
Malcolm X was a contributor by helping people and was a religious leader. He pushed for people to accept people being adopted. Malcolm X | Biography, Nation of Islam, Assassination, & Facts | Britannica -
Brown v. Board of Education allows there to be no segregation in schools and if there was it would violate the 14th amendment
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Montgomery Bus Boycott occurred between 12/5/55-12/20/56 and it was when Rosa Parks was arrested people took it to the supreme court after protesting for 13 months and it passed a law that made segregation on bussed unconstitutional.
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I think that the Montgomery Bus Boycott was the most important because it gained a lot of attention for civil rights activists. It showed that they were done putting up with the crap they had to deal with overtime. This event is also significant because people risked their whole carer to fight for what they thought was right. This event showed that they were done and they were ready to fight back.
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In 1957, nine ordinary teenagers walked out of their homes and stepped up to the front lines in the battle for civil rights for all Americans. The media coined the name “Little Rock Nine" to identify the first African American students to desegregate Little Rock Central High School.
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With the goal of redeeming “the soul of America” through nonviolent resistance, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) was established in 1957 to coordinate the action of local protest groups throughout the South (King, “Beyond Vietnam,” 144). Under the leadership of Martin Luther King, Jr The organization drew on the power and independence of black churches to support its activities. https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/southern-christian-leadership-conference-sclc -
Greensboro Sit-in started on 2/1/60-7/25/60. The Greensboro Sit-ins were where people did nonviolent protests against places with segregated lunch counters like in Greensboro, North carolina
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SNCC sought to coordinate youth-led nonviolent, direct-action campaigns against segregation and other forms of racism. SNCC members played an integral role in sit-ins, Freedom Rides, the 1963 March on Washington, and such voter education projects as the Mississippi Freedom Summer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Student_Nonviolent_Coordinating_Committee#:~:text=The%20Student%20Nonviolent%20Coordinating%20Committee,rights%20movement%20during%20the%201960s. -
Ruby Bridges was born September 8, 1954, in Tylertown, Mississippi, U.S.), an American activist who became a symbol of the civil rights movement and who was, at age six, the youngest of a group of African American students to integrate schools in the American South.
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Freedom Riders happened from May 4, 1961, to December 6, 1961. Freedom Riders was a group of whites and African American civil rights activists who protested segregated bus terminals.
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Birmingham Campaign brought attention to the local black leaders' end of a policy of racial segregation in Bermingham, Alabama and this event was led by Martin Luther King jr.
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Martin Luther King was a prime minister and was a part of the civil rights movement and was a main contributor to the civil rights movement because he spoke and wrote speeches. He was a part of the march in Washington D.C.
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March on Washington was where 250,000 people were at the national capital for March on Washington which they did because they wanted jobs and freedom.
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16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama was where the K.K.K. bombed a church and it killed 4 girls that act shocked the government and the nation and it activated a civil rights movement.
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Freedom Summer was a voter registration project that happened in the summer and it increased the population of black voters
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Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibited discrimination based on sex, race, color, religion, and national origin.
https://www.dol.gov/agencies/oasam/civil-rights-center/statutes/civil-rights-act-of-1964#:~:text=In%201964%2C%20Congress%20passed%20Public,hiring%2C%20promoting%2C%20and%20firing. -
Bloody Sunday: Selma to Birmingham March was when state troopers attack unarmed marchers whit billy clubs and would use tear gas if they crosses the country line.
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Voting Rights Act of 1965. President Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965. This voting act allowed there to be no more discriminatory voting practices that the south used after the civil war
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Watts Riot started on Aug. 11, 1965, and ended on Aug. 16, 1965. The Watts Riot also called the Watts rebellion was where people gathered and started a riot that lasted 6 days in the midst of rioting it caused $40 million in property damage 34 deaths 1,032 injured and 4,000 were arrested.
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Black panthers were a party of self-defense and were founded in October by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale who met at a college in Oakland It was a revolutionary organization with an ideology of socialism, armed self-defense, and Black nationalism. to stop/prevent police brutality https://www.archives.gov/research/african-americans/black-power/black-panthers#:~:text=The%20Black%20Panther%20Party%20for,defense%2C%20particularly%20against%20police%20brutality. -
Bobby Seale/Huey P. Newton. Huey P. Newton was the founder of the Black Panthers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huey_P._Newton
Bobby Seale is one of a generation of young African American radicals who broke away from the usually nonviolent Civil Rights Movement to preach a doctrine of militant Black empowerment, helping found the Black Panthers https://www.pbs.org/hueypnewton/people/people_seale.html -
Poor People’s Campaign was to address poverty through income and housing. This event would help by dramatizing their needs until they found a way to help even more.
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The assassination of Dr. King was when Martin Luther King jr. was shot dead on the second floor of a motel.
https://www.britannica.com/event/assassination-of-Martin-Luther-King-Jr/The-assassination
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