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Brown vs. Board of Education was an event where the US Supreme Court established racial segregation rules at public schools. -
Emmet Till was a young and overall positive person, who was taken and brutally murdered in a powerful attack fueled by racism. -
Rosa Parks was a powerful woman who strived to end racial segregation when she was forced to leave her seat on a bus due to said segregation. She was active in the Montgomery bus boycott. -
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference was inspired by the Montgomery bus boycott, the SCLC was founded by Martin Luther King Jr. to help fight for equal rights. -
Little Rock 9 were a group of nine African American students that, in 1957, enrolled in Little Rock Central High School, that was racially segregated. -
When African students were denied lunch service in Greensboro, North Carolina, they denied to leave, which caused a civil rights protest. -
It was the main part of student commitment in the 1960s, and gave a lot to the civil rights movement. -
Drivers of buses drove directly into the segregated Southern United States. -
It was a massive protest that brought over 200,000 people to the nations capital to protest racial segregation. -
It’s a civil rights and labor law that bans discrimination based on race or sex. -
This consisted of three protests during 1965, following the 54 mile highway from Selma, Alabama, to the capital of Montgomery. -
The act was signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson and broke the barriers halting African Americans from voting.