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Supreme Court case that ruled racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional. -
14-year-old Emmett Till was brutally kidnapped, beaten, and murdered in Mississippi after allegedly whistling at a white woman. -
Rosa Parks' arrest for refusing to give up her bus seat in 1955, a pivotal act of defiance against segregation, sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott. -
Nine African American students who integrated Little Rock Central High School in 1957, following the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education ruling. -
A pivotal civil rights protest that began on February 1, 1960, when four Black college freshmen sat at the "whites-only" lunch counter and were refused service. -
A series of nonviolent, interracial protests in 1961, where activists rode interstate buses into the segregated South to challenge the non-enforcement of Supreme Court rulings that declared segregation on public transit unconstitutional. -
A landmark federal law that prohibits racial discrimination in voting, enacted to overcome legal barriers at the state and local level that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote. -
Refers to the violent attack on civil rights marchers by Alabama state troopers on March 7, 1965, as they began a peaceful march from Selma to Montgomery to advocate for voting rights. -
Defends MLK's strategy of nonviolent resistance and direct action, arguing that waiting for justice is not an option and that one is morally obligated to resist unjust laws. -
A massive peaceful protest that drew over 250,000 people to the nation's capital to advocate for civil and economic rights for African Americans. -
A 1963 terrorist attack on the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, during the Civil Rights Movement. -
Prohibits both Congress and the states from requiring the payment of a poll tax or any other tax to vote in federal elections. -
A landmark federal law that outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. -
A landmark U.S. Supreme Court case that struck down all state laws banning interracial marriage.