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Brown vs. Board of Education Conclusion
The Supreme Court announced that " in the feild of public education.. 'seperate but equal has no place' " and that separate educational facilities are by nature unequal. -
Civil Rights Movement
The Civil Rights movement started : a fight for racial equality and integration -
Rosa Parks Arrest
Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat for a white man on a bus. -
Little Rock Nine
Nine African Americans enrolled at an all white high school in Little Rock , Arkansas in order for the integration plan to commence -
March on Washington
More than 200,000 Americans gatherd to march to Washington , where Martin Luther King Jr ' s " I hAve A dream speech took place. -
Sixteenth Street Church bombing
The sisxteenth street Babtist Church was bombed by the Ku Klux Klan and 4 young black girls were killed -
Civil Rights Act
Congress passed Lyndon .B. Johnson's Civil Rights act which outlawed segregation in public facilities -
Assassination of Malcolm X
Islams most effective leader who was against segregation and encouraged African Americans to be proud of who they are was assasinatedon this day -
Voting Rights Act
Outlawed " literacy tests" and other barriers keeping the black people from voting -
Dr . kings Assasination
Dr. Luther KIng . Jr. was assasinated by James Earl Ray while giving a speech.
