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The KKK used violence, intimidation, and assassinations -
Slavery was Abolished was a result of laws getting passed making it illegal. This however was not the end of legal racism. This impacted many communities leading to lots of changes, good or bad. -
Black Men are granted the right to vote. The 15th amendment is ratified granting black men the right to vote. This graph shows Registration of black and white citizens through different areas. The Voting rights act Prohibits racial discrimination in voting. -
The 19th amendment grants women the right to vote after many protects and acts to grain voting rights. -
Supreme court ruling that declared racial segregation in public schools overturning Plessy v. Ferguson -
A 14 year old boy from Chicago is brutally murdered for allegedly flirting with a white woman, after this many acts were started to end inequality, including Rosa parks boycott. -
Rosa Parks, an civil rights activist most known for the start or the Montgomery boycott after sitting in the front of a bus and refusing to give up a seat to a white man. -
The FBI, under J. Edgar Hoover, launched COINTELPRO to undermine civil rights leaders and organizations.Leaders like Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. were subjected to wiretaps, harassment, and smear campaigns to discredit their activism. -
Protest against segregation after Rosa parks refused to giver up her seat to a white man. In this boycott black people stopped riding the buses making buses lose money and finally unsegergate. -
Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus ordered the National Guard to block the entry of nine Black students (Little Rock Nine) into Central High School. -
Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus ordered the National Guard to block the entry of nine Black students into Central High School now known as The Little Rock nine. This graph shows the change that the Little Rock nine made. -
A group of white and African Americans who protested against segregated bus terminals -
200,000 people of all races congregated in Washington for a peaceful march with the purpose of forcing civil rights and establishing equality for everyone. -
MLK gives his I have a dream speech with approximately 250,000 people present https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vP4iY1TtS3s
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Prohibited discrimination in public places. This includes place like schools, employment places restaurants, hotels etc. This graph shows people who approved and disapproved. -
MLK is assassinated on the balcony of his hotel room in Memphis Tennessee.