Civil Rights

By noahc10

  • Jackie Robinson enters the MLB

    First black baseball player
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    Brown versus BOE

    Decison overturned Plessy v. Ferguson case, which allowed school segregation
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    French Defeated at Dien Bien Phu

    The french were defeated
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    Geneva Accords

    took place in geneva switzerland in a way of uniting vietnam

  • Emmit Till Killed

    He was beat to death

  • Rosa Parks arrested

    Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat
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    Montgomery Bus Boycott

    buses were boycotted by blacks in the south

  • SCLC Founded

    founded to coordinate and support non violence as a method of desegregation
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    Freedom Riders

    Rode around D.C. to protest bus segregation

  • James Meridith enters Ol Miss University

    First black on campus

  • "I Have a Dream Speech"

    Delivered by MLK JR

  • Civil Rights Act of 1964

    Got rid of segregation #killwhitey

  • Gulf of Tonkin incident

    confrontaion between north veitnam and the US
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    Operation Rolling Thunder

    US bombed north veitnam heavily

  • Voting Rights Act of 1965

    Womens voting rights
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    Tet Offensive

    Sneak attacks by the north veitnamese

  • MLK assassinated

    MLK was killed by a white gunman
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    Woodstock

    A trippy acid fest full of music

  • US signs agreement to end war.

    US signs peace treaty to end vietnam war