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Malcolm X
I disagreed with the way Martin Luthor King Jr. fought for civil rights. I promoted black pride and was a member of Islam. -
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The life of Martin Luther King Jr
MLK (Age: 39) -
Rosa Parks
Started the Montgomery Bus Boycott -
Brown vs Board of Ed.
Desegregation of schools -
Brown v. Board of Ed. II
Supreme Court ruled in 1955 that all public schools must integrate with all deliberate speed Met with massive resistance in the south -
Montgomery Bus Boycotts
MLK told everybody to not ride the busses in hope to desegregate busses -
Little Rock 9
federalism superior/ desegregated this school -
Crisis at Little Rock Central
The little rock nine mine black students have chosen to break the color barrier at little rock central high school in Arkansas in 1957. Governor Orval Faubus deployed Arkansas National Guard to prevent the students from entering claimed state's right's President Eisenhower supported the Federal government's decision to integrate and sent 101 st Airborne Division of US Army to assist the students in entering the school -
Sit ins
a form of protest in which demonstrations occupy a place -
Watts Riots
Six days or riots in Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles started when a white police officer arrested a black driver after he failed the field sobriety test(Drunk driving) angry crowd watched and started threw rocks and threatened police in the end 34 dead, 2,034 injured, 3,952 arrested. Riots were viewed by some as a reaction to racial tension -
Freedom Riders
group of people who took the challenge to go throgh the south -
Birmingham
SCBC to bring integration to African Americans -
Mississippi Freedom Summer
non violent march to end segregation -
March from Selma
a march to invest black voters in the south
