Civil Rights

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  • Supreme Court Rules Brown vs Board of Education

    Supreme Court Rules Brown vs Board of Education
    The court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional.

  • Rosa Parks Refuses To Give Up Her Seat

    Rosa Parks Refuses To Give Up Her Seat
    An activist in the Civil Rights movement, best known for her role in the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

  • MLK House Is Bombed

    MLK House Is Bombed
    While speaking at a meeting that had been organized to support the Montgomery Bus Boycott, Martin Luther Kings house was bombed.

  • Little Rock Nine

    Little Rock Nine
    The Little Rock Nine was a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High school.

  • The Sit-In Movement

    The Sit-In Movement
    Students would set in restaurants and patiently wait to be served, and no matter the consequence, they would take the punishments. whether it was having food thrown at them or being beaten.

  • "I Have A Dream"

    "I Have A Dream"
    Martin Luther Kings speech at the Lincoln Memorial on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.

  • Birmingham Church Bombing

    Birmingham Church Bombing
    An act of white terrorism which occured at the African-American 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama.

  • Martin Luther King Nobel Prize

    Martin Luther King Nobel Prize
    Martin Luther King is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his nonviolent resistance to racial prejudice in America.

  • Civil Rights Act Passed

    Civil Rights Act Passed
    The Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.

  • Martin Luther King Assassinated

    Martin Luther King Assassinated
    Fatally shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.