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Brown v. Board of education
A Supreme Court case desegregated the public schools everywhere in the United States, but especially in the south. Integration of the schools was tested in Arkansas, the president sent army troops to insure the 9 black students were allowed in school. -
Rosa Parks
On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up her Montgomery, Alabama bus seat for a white passenger. Her conviction and fine led to the Montgomery bus boycott, one of the pivotal events of the 1950s-60s civil rights movement. Rosa Parks action began the organized Montgomery bus boycott. MLK became the leader of the civil rights “war”. -
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Montgomery Bus Boycott
The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a civil rights protest during which African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery, Alabama, to protest segregated seating. The boycott took place from December 5, 1955, to December 20, 1956, and is regarded as the first large-scale U.S. demonstration against segregation. -
Little Rock 9
Nine African American students who attended Little Rock Central High School in 1957 are known as the Little Rock Nine. Their enrollment was followed by the Little Rock Crisis, the governor of Arkansas, first forbid the kids from entering the racially segregated school, which led to the Little Rock Crisis. Following President Dwight D. Eisenhower's involvement. -
First lunch counter sit in
when four black students from North Carolina A T College sat down at a Woolworth lunch counter in downtown Greensboro, North Carolina. -
Freedom Rides
In order to protest the non-violent of the US Supreme Court's rulings in Morgan v. Virginia (1946) and Boynton v. Virginia (1960), which declared segregated public buses to be unconstitutional, civil rights activists known as the Freedom Riders traveled into the segregated South on interstate buses in 1961 and later years. -
The Birmingham Campaign
A series of NON-Violent protests in Birmingham, Alabama were met with Violent Police enforcement and mass jailing, including MLK, Dr. King wrote his “letter from Birmingham Jail” -
March on Washington
On August 28, 1963, the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom—also referred to as the March on Washington or the Great March on Washington—took place in Washington, D.C. The march's goal was to promote African Americans' economic and civil rights. -
I have a Dream speech
American civil rights leader and Baptist Martin Luther King Jr. gave a public address titled "I Have a Dream" on August 28, 1963, at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. King demanded in the address that racism in the US be eradicated as well as civil and economic rights. The speech was one of the most well-known events of the civil rights movement and one of the most memorable speeches in American history. -
Civil Rights Act
The civil rights and labor Law/Act in the United States, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (passed July 2, 1964) forbids discrimination on the grounds of race, color, religion, sex, and national origin. It forbids discrimination in the workplace, racial segregation in public places and schools, and the uneven enforcement of voter registration laws.