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Plessy v Ferguson was a landmark constitutional law case of the US supreme court. It supported the racial segregation laws for the doctrine of "separated but equal."
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Brown v Board of Education was a landmark in the United States supreme court.The court announce state laws for the separate public schools for whites and black students.
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An event in the civil rights movement were a political and social protest campaign against the racial segregation on public transit systems. African Americans refuse to ride city buses in Montgomery, AL because of segregated seating.
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Martin Luther King's first arrest was because he and other were protesting about the treatment of the blacks in Birmingham, Alabama. Court had ordered that MLK couldn't hold protesters in Birmingham.
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Martin Luther King's house gets bombed because of the successful of the bus boycott. His family wasn't hurt and after the bombing 100s of blacks were angry.
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Nine African American students enrolled to Little Rock Central High School (an all white school) but had trouble on their way there. Protester would yell and spit on the students.
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An event that had nonviolent protests in Greensboro, NC fighting for racial equality. Young African American students at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter sparked to colleges throughout the region.
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The march was for jobs and freedom.250,000 people gathered in Washington DC for the march, there was live music performed by Bob Dylan, Josephine Baker, and Joan Baez also speeches threw out the day.
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The freedom project was a registration project in Mississippi organized by the local Council of Federated Organization (COFO). About A hundred of white college students were invited in the Freedom Summer project.
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A landmark for civil rights and US labor laws in the United States. It will outlaw the discrimination based on color, race, sex, national origin, or religion.
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There was three protest marches along the 5 day 54 mile highway from Selma, AL. Martin Luther King Jr. led thousands of nonviolent demonstrators to the steps of the capitol in Mntgomery.
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A law that was signed for outlawing discriminatory voting. It was adopted in many southern states after the Civil War.
