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This was a case about the integration of public schools that was taken all the way to the Supreme Court. It was ruled unanimously that the segregation of public schools was unconstitutional.
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Emmett Till was a 14-year old who was brutally murdered for allegedly flirting with and harassing a white women while visiting his family in money, Mississippi.
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An African American women named Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white person and she was arrested for it. This soon led to The Montgomery bus boycott which was a protest against segregated seating. African Americans refused to ride the busses which lead to the first large scale U.S demonstration against segregation.
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The SCLC is also known as the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. The goal of this organization was the advocate civil rights for African-Americans.
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The Little Rock Nine were nine African American students who after enrolling in Little Rock Central High School were denied of their enrollment due to segregation laws. In doing this Governor Orval Faubus mobilized the national guard trying to prevent them from attending the all whites school.
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SNCC which is also known the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. This committee was founded by black college students who wanted to end segregation in the south. They gave other African Americans a voice to be heard and participation in the civil rights movement.
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On this day young African American students, civil rights activists had a sit-in at the segregated Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina for not leaving after being denied service.
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Freedom Riders were groups of white and African American civil rights activists who participated in the freedom rides. These rides were bus trips through the south in protest to segregated terminals. [https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/freedom-rides]
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While Martin Luther King Jr. was put in jail for protesting without a permit, he wrote letters which are now known as one of the most moving pieces of the 20th century.
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Medgar Evers was civil rights activist who served in the United States Army. Evers was involved with the NAACP and organized voter-registration efforts and and economic boycotts. In 1963 he was assassinated by Bronchiole De La Beckwith, a member of the White Citizens's Council. Their main goal was to resiste integration of schools and civil rights activism. For Evers, he was buried with his honors from serving in the Army.
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On this day, more than 200,000 demonstrators took part in this event at the nations capital. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous 'I have a dream' speech. The march was a success and lead to a stronger federal civil rights bill for congress.
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An Alabama sixteenth street church was bombed by members of the KKK splinter group also known as the Cahaba Boys. This bombing killed 4 African American girls during church service,14 others were severely injured by the debris and explosion blast.
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Malcolm X was an American Muslim minister. Malcolm was popularly known during the civil rights movement as he was a racial advocate and human rights activist. Malcolm X was shot while on stage during an Afro-American unity meeting in the Audubon Ballroom in Manhattan.
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The March on Selma was lead by nonviolent activists who showed African Americans exercising their right to vote. This was due to the repression on the African American community when Southern State legislature passed and maintained discrimination laws and practices.
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Martin Luther King Jr. was a famous civil rights activists and a christian minister. He was the spokesperson and the leader for the civil rights movement. On this day he was fatally shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. From there he was then taken to St. Joseph's Hospital where he died.
