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Brown vs board of education
It is a Supreme Court case that ends segregation. The vote was 9-0 or unanimous. Linda brown who had to commute to go to black school where a white school was blocks away It is a great decision however there was a lot of evidence after the ruling -
Emmit till
14 year old boy from Chicago visiting Mississippi
accused Of whistling at a white woman
Roy Bryantand Jw Milam will kidnap beat shoot kill throw into a lake emmet till
Maime till has an open casket for his funeral -
Rosa parks
Alabama literacy test
Seperate schools, rail cars, water fountain, back of the bus
Boycott
Withdraw from commercial or social relations-punishment/protest -
Southern Cristhian leadership conference
Started after bus boycott to organized a protest. MLK elected president of it they organized nonviolent protest and they still exist today -
Little Rock 9
Alabama literacy test
Seperate schools, rail cars, water fountain or social relations
- punishment/protest
Interview counseled trained
Careful and critical examination of someone -
greensboro, Sit in
4 college students sat down at a lunch counter at Woolworth to be served. they were refused service continued to sit in and others joined the protest spread to other towns. forced change -
Student nonviolent coordinating committee
Youth group of the students remained fiercely independent of MKL and SCLC generating their own project and strategies. The two organizations worked side by side though out the early years of the civil rights movement. This group was the secound half of the freedom riders and were part of the March to Selma -
Freedom riders
2 week bus trip to the Deep South. The goal was to challenge the Jim Crow laws. It was organized by core. The riders faced opposition from the KKK and southern whites -
March on Washington
For jobs and freedom was to advocate for the civil and economic rights of African Americans. 250,000 people were in attendance at his i have a dream speech 70-80% of marchers were black -
Civil rights act of 1964
Can not be refused service forbids employers and labor unions to discriminar against any person on grounds of race color religion sex physical disability or age in a job related matters -
March on Selma
600 students March from Selma to Montgomery Alabama to get their right to Vote they walked 54miles and were stopped at the bridge. Seen on national television. LbJ order the passage of 1965 voting right law -
Voting rights of 1965
One of the most comprehensive pieces of legislation in U.S. history blacks were resistering to vote and being elected ti public office