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Citizenship, Due Process, and Equal Protection of the Laws. -
banned segregation in public schools. -
African-American teenager who was murdered in Drew, Mississippi "talking fresh" with a white woman. Photos of his body were published in Jet Magazine. His murder and trail outraged people in America. -
1955, after Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a city bus, Dr. Martin L. King led a boycott of city buses. After 11 months the Supreme Court ruled that segregation of public transportation was illegal. -
1st group of black students who were able to attend an all white school because President Eisenhower used the military to enforce the Brown v. Board of Education decision. -
protests by black college students, 1960-1961, who took seats at "whites only" lunch counters and refused to leave until served. -
Group of civil rights workers who took bus trips through southern states in 1961 to protest illegal bus segregation -
A letter written by Martin Luther King Jr. after he had been arrested when he took part in a nonviolent march against segregation. He was disappointed more Christians didn't speak out against racism. -
The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom was held in Washington, D.C., on August 28, 1963. The purpose of the march was to advocate for the civil and economic rights of African Americans. -
The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing was a terrorist bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, on September 15, 1963. The bombing was committed by the white supremacist terrorist group the Ku Klux Klan. -
A federal law that banned segregation in public accommodations, public facilities, and employment. -
"Bloody Sunday" refers to the violent attack on civil rights marchers on March 7, 1965, as they crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, during their march to demand voting rights -
Federal law banned discrimination in voting; banned literacy tests, that had been used to keep Blacks from voting. -
Loving v. Virginia was a landmark 1967 Supreme Court case that declared state laws banning interracial marriage unconstitutional. The case involved Mildred and Richard Loving, an interracial couple who were arrested and convicted in Virginia for violating the state's anti-miscegenation laws after marrying in Washington, D.C. The Supreme Court unanimously ruled that these laws violated the Fourteenth Amendment's.