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Montgomery Bus Boycott
A social protest campaign against race segregation that lasted for a year in Montgomery,Alabama Rosa Parks is the person who started this. -
Integration of Little Rock Central
9 African American students went to Little Rock Central High School & a group of a white angry mob didnt want them entering a white school. President Eisenhower sent im army troops to make sure the black students got in. -
First Lunch Counter Sit-In
African American college students were sitting down at a lunch counter in North Carolina, they had a request that got denied and when asked to leave they refused. When they didn’t get up it helped ignite a youth led movement to challenge racial inequality throughout the South. -
Freedom Rides
African Americans & 6 whites had left Washington,DC on public transportation heading to the South. They wanted to end racial segregation, they tested supreme courts ruling -
Birmingham Campaign
A movement organized by southern chirstian leadership conference. This was attention to the integration efforts for African American -
March On Washington
People were protesting for jobs & freedom the purpose was to advocate for civil and economic rights for African Americans -
Civil rights act of 1964
Stops an unequal application of voter registration requirements segregated racial schools, employment & public accommodations. -
Voting rights act of 1965
Landmark piece of federal legislation in the U.S that stops racial discrimination in the voting.
