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- Supreme Court case to end segregation.
- 9-0 decision, for equal protection under 14th amendment
- Riots and a lot of violence broke out after the decision, some schools even closed.
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- A 14-year-old black boy from Chicago went to visit his family.
- Emmet was accussed of whistling a white woman.
- Roy Bryan and J.W. Milan kidnapped, beat, shot, and killed Emmet.
- Bryan and Milan threw Emmet's body into the river.
- Bryan and Milan went to trail, but were founf Not Guilty,
- Maime till had an open casket funeral for Emmett.
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- Rosa Parks refused to give her seat to a white person, which leads her to get arrested.
- The bus boycott lasted about 381 days.
- 1st large nonviolent demonstration of civil rights in the United States.
- Turned out to be a successful movement due to most of the riders were black.
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- Began after the bus boycott to protest.
- Martin Luther King Jr. was elected president.
- The protest was organized in the south.
- after the death of Martin Luther King Jr. the SCLC started to decline.
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- Arkansas
- 9 students were vetted to undergo the decision.
- Following year all public schools closed. (1958)
- August 29, 1959, schools reopened
- Tested the Brown v. Board of Education decision.
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- At Woolworths, four college students sat down at the lunch counter.
- The four students were refused service.
- The students continued to "sit in" as in form of protest. More students joined the four college students in the protest.
- Helped to force change
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- Second group of the freedom riders.
- Apart of the March to Selma.
- A youth group of students who remained fiercely independent of MLK and SCLC.
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- Organized by CORE
- Buses were burned and riders were beaten by the KKK.
- Trip to the Deep South to deliberate the Jim Crown laws.
- White and colored signs were removed from the bus and train stations and even from the lunch counters.
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- 250,000 people had attended the Lincoln Memorial.
- 70-80% of the people were black. The march was to help advocate for their civil and economic rights.
- Martin Luther King Jr. gave the famous "I Have a Dream" speech.
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- Service could not be refused
- Does not allow employers and cooperations discriminate against race, color, gender, age, religion, etc.
- Does not allow anyone to discriminate on any grounds of color, race, religion, gender, etc.
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- 600 students march from Selma to Montgomery to be able to vote.
- The students walked 54 miles and were stopped at the bridge.
- Seen on television.
- LBJ ordered the passage of 1965 voting rights law.
- The second March 21-24.
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- Blacks were registering to vote
- Blacks were being elected to public office.
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