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XXI (21st) Amendment
The 21st amendment repealed the 18th amendment and made the transport, consumption and sale of liquor allowed. -
Lynching of Emmett Till
Emmett Till was a 14 year old girl who lived in Mississippi and she was lynched. The reason she was lynched because a white women said she offended her family at a grocery store. -
Brown v Board of Education
The Brown v Board of Education was a supreme court case that declared there not be seperate schools for white/black people. -
Brown v Board of Education II
the Brown v Brown of Education II case was another supreme court case. This case made it so that people of all color would be friends in school. -
Citizens' Councils
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Rosa Parks Arrested
Rosa Parks was arrested for not giving up her seat to a white male on the bus. This is what started the Montgomery bus boycott. -
Montgomery bus boycott
The Montgomery bus boycott was protesting segergation that would happen on buses. The protests were non-violent -
SCLC Founded
The SCLC or Southern Christan Leadership Conference is a american civil rights organisation that followed Martian Luthur Kid Jr. They had a very large play in the American civil rights movement. -
Eisenhower sends in Federal Troops
President Eisenhower sent in Federal Troops to a Central high school to stop black people from enrolling. -
SNCC Formed
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was a group of students who do sit ins. -
Greensboro sit ins
the Greensboro sit ins were non-violent protests against woolworth working conditions. -
White mob attacks federal marshals in Montgomery
They sent federal agents to come break up peaceful protests. -
Freedom Rides
Freedom Riders were people who wanted things to change. They were civil rights activist who road busses of the road to make a case in the supreme court. -
Bombing of Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth
This was another act of white supremacy where they took the baptists who was one of MLKs main men -
Albany Georgia “failure”
This was the generation of bad movement. There were black leaders and racists. -
Bailey v Patterson
the bailey v Petterson supreme court case made it people of all color had the same constitutial rights as the average white male. -
MLK goes to a Birmingham jail
MLK was sent to jail because he was protesting to help black rights -
Equal pay act
The Equal Pay Act is an act that was signed on june 10th. This act made it so that people couldn't get paid less depending on their religion, age, sex, color or any other discriminations. -
Assassination of Medgar Evers
the assassination of Medgar Evers. Medger evans was murdered in Jackson Mississippi and he was a civil rights leader. He was later burried in full mitiary honors. -
Kennedy sends in Federal Troops
He sent troops to escort colored students into a white school. -
March on Washington “I have a Dream”
There was a march in Washinton for freedom and to fix unemployment rates. The march was held in Washington D.C and 200,000-300,000 people joined in. This is when MLK had his iconic "I have a dream" speech. -
Bombing of a church in Birmingham
The bombing of the church was a result im white people supremacists not liking black people. They bombed the church -
Assassination of John F. Kennedy
John F. Kennedy was the president of the United States when he was shot. He was shot riding in a motorcade in Dealey Plaza -
Freedom Summer
Freedom Summer was a volunteer system to register alot of African Americans -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
This act ended segregation on race, color, religion and sex. This is one major achivements in the civil rights movment. -
Killing of Goodman, Chaney, Schwerner
The Goodman ware civil right workers in Mississippi. There were abducted and murdered in Mississippi. They were working on making it legal for black people to vote at this time. -
Selma to Montgomery March
The Montgomery marches where protesters marched 54-mile highway. -
Assassination of Malcolm X
Malcolm X was shot before giving a speech about his new organization of Afro-Americans Unity. He was shot in New York. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
The voting rights act was an act that made it legal for all color of people to vote. This made it so african americans could vote. -
Martin Luther King House Bombing
The MLK house bombing was a segregation for the bus boycott. -
Black Panthers Formed
The Black Panthers were a party that wanted change. The black panthers were armed civials that would watch the oakland police -
Loving v Virginia
Loving v Virginia was a landmark in the civil rights movement that makes interracial marriage legal. -
Detroit riot
The detriot riot was one of the bloodist riots every. Protests were beaten and sprayed when they were being too violent. -
Minneapolis Riots
The Minneapolis Riots was from racial tension that erupted among plymouth ave. There were assults and all other kinds of violent things going on. -
Assassination of Robert “Bobby” Kennedy
Robert F. Kennedy was a president candidate. He was shot around midnight in the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles California. He Was running in the 1968 election -
Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr was a civil rights leader that was shot in a motel in Tennessee. He was rushed to the hospital but later declared dead.
