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Brown v. Board of Education was a landmark 1954 Supreme Court case that ruled state-sponsored segregation in public schools unconstitutional, overturning the "separate but equal" doctrine established in Plessy v. Ferguson -
August 28, 1955 Milam, kidnap Emmett Till from Moses Wright's home. They will later describe brutally beating him, taking him to the edge of the Tallahatchie River, shooting him in the head, fastening a large metal fan used for ginning cotton to his neck with barbed wire, and pushing the body into the river. -
Rosa Parks's refusal to give up her bus seat to a white man on December 1, 1955, sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott, a 381-day mass protest against segregation in Montgomery, Alabama -
The Little Rock Nine were nine Black students who helped integrate Little Rock Central High School in Arkansas in 1957, a pivotal moment in the Civil Rights Movement -
The Greensboro Woolworth's sit-in was a pivotal civil rights protest that began on February 1, 1960, when four Black college freshmen sat at the "whites-only" lunch counter and were refused service -
The Freedom Rides were a series of nonviolent protests in 1961 where interracial groups of activists rode buses through the American South to challenge the segregation of interstate bus terminals. -
MLK’s Letter From Birmingham Jail is a passionate defense of nonviolent resistance and a call for direct action against segregation, written in 1963 while he was imprisoned for participating in protests -
The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom was a 1963 peaceful protest in Washington, D.C., that drew an estimated 250,000 people to advocate for civil and economic rights for African Americans -
The Birmingham Baptist Church Bombing, also known as the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing, was a white supremacist terrorist attack on September 15, 1963, in Birmingham, Alabama -
The 24th Amendment of the United States Constitution prohibits both Congress and the states from requiring the payment of a poll tax or any other tax to vote in federal elections. -
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was a landmark law that outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, or national origin. -
"Bloody Sunday" refers to the violent attack on civil rights marchers on March 7, 1965, as they crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, during their march to demand voting rights. -
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is a landmark federal law signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson to combat racial discrimination in voting, which it achieved by outlawing discriminatory practices like literacy tests, and providing federal oversight for voter registration in areas with a history of discrimination -
Loving v. Virginia (1967) was a landmark Supreme Court case that declared state laws banning interracial marriage unconstitutional