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Brown vs. Board of Education
state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional, even if the segregated schools are otherwise equal in quality -
Emmett Till Murder
till was an 14 year old african america they got killed terrible for speaking to a white mans wife -
Rosa Parks & the Montgomery Bus Boycott
rosa parks stood up fro her self and dint get up out her seat for a white male and she got arrested for not doing what she was told to do -
The Little Rock Nine and Integration
a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School -
Greensboro Woolworth's Sit-ins
four freshmen from nc agricultural and technical college in greensboro walked into the F. W. Woolworth store and quietly sat down at the lunch counter and they were refused service because the color of the skin -
Freedom Rides
were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern united states -
March on Washington
brought over 200,000 people to the nation's capitol to protest racial discrimination and show support for civil rights legislation that was pending in congress -
MLK’s Letter From Birmingham Jail
anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere we are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality tied in a single garment of destiny -
Birmingham Baptist Church Bombing
the KKK blew of the church on 16th street -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin -
24th Amendment
prohibits both congress and the states from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax or other types of tax -
“Bloody Sunday”/Selma to Montgomery March
state and local police used billy clubs, whips, and tear gas to attack hundreds of civil rights activists -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
signed into law by president lyndon johnson aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented african americans from exercising their right to vote as guaranteed -
Loving v. Virginia
was a landmark civil rights decision of the us supreme court in which the court ruled that laws banning interracial marriage violate