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It was a Supreme Court case to end segregation.
9-0 decision or unanimous, for equal Porte under the 14th amendment.
After the decision, violence and riots broke out, with some schools closing. -
14 year old boy from Chicago, visiting family.
Accused of whistling at a white woman.
Roy Bryant and JW Milan kidnap beat shot and killed and then threw Emmet’s body in the river. -
Rosa parks is balck.
Rosa parks refused to give up her seat to the whites.
Rosa parks was arrested . -
The bus boycott begins and last 381.
Martin Luther king emerges as the leader of the bus boycott.
Very successful because 75% of riders are black. -
Started after the bus boycott to organize protest.
Martin Luther king was elected president.
Organized protest around the south to coordinate events such Greensboro sitins, march on Washington and Selma. -
Testing the brown v board of education decision.
9 students were vetted to take this test.
Airborn 101 escorted students to class. -
4 college students sat down at a lunch counter.
They were refused service.
They continued to sit and others joined in on this. -
Youth group of the students remained fiercely independent of king and SCLC.
The two organizations worked side by side throughout the the early years of the civil rights movement.
This group was the second part of the freedom riders and part of the march of Selma. -
2 week bus ride in the Deep South to stop the violence.
Organized by CORE.
Busses were burned and passengers beat by the KKK. -
March to advocate for the rights of the African Americans.
250,000 were in attendance at the Lincoln memorial.
MLK was the last to sleek and gave his “I have a dream speech”. -
Blacks cannot be refused service.
Forbids worker unions and employers to discriminate.
Prohibits discrimination against race and color. -
600 students March from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama to get the right to vote.
They walked 54 miles that were stopped on the bridge. -
One of the most comprehensive pieces of legislation in U.S. history.
Blacks were registered to vote.
The went banana’s
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