Civil Rights

By aly.mikesell

  • Brown

  • Till Murder

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    Montgomery Bus Boycott

  • Little Rock

  • Sit ins

    Black citizens sat a white lunch counters which affected the businesses by not getting them customers and they would not serve the blacks.

  • Freedom riders

    Blacks got on interstate buses and got off at the stations and went into the white areas like the lunch and bathroom areas but were beaten and buses set fire.
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    Birmingham Protests

    They brought in kids to the protest so it wouldn't affect families financially and so that it would give more impact.

  • March on Washington

    "I have a dream" speech at biggest protest for civil rights so far.
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    Freedom summer

    Blacks went to register to vote in the South. College students who went to register disappeared and were killed. After this, the movement began to become more and more violent.

  • Civil RIghts Act

    eliminates discrimination based on race, color, sex, or religion

  • Voting right act of 1965

    overcame barriers for black citizens voting such as the literacy test, and police keeping them out, and the voting fee.
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    Selma march

    Police beat the protestors at the march also called "bloody sunday"

  • King's assassination

    Assassinated in a hotel in Memphis. Was a big impact around the world