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Brown vs. Board of Education
A case that made segregation in schools unconstitutional -
Emmett Till Murder
When two Mississippi men kidnapped and brutally murdered a 14 year old boy for whistling at a white woman -
Rosa Parks & the Montgomery Bus Boycott
When Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to white man -
The Little Rock Nine and Integration
9 black students were enrolled in Little Rock High School,The first integration move since segregation became illegal in schools -
Greensboro Woolworth's Sit-ins
four freshmen from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College in Greensboro walked into the F. W. Woolworth store and sat down at the lunch counter,They were refused service, but they stayed until closing time. The next morning they brought twenty-five more students with them. -
Freedom Rides
Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated Southern US -
MLK’s Letter From Birmingham Jail
The "Letter from Birmingham Jail" is an open letter written on April 16, 1963, by Martin Luther King Jr. -
March on Washington
A march in Washington held to advocate for civil and economic rights of Black Americans -
Birmingham Baptist Church Bombing
The bombing of 16th street baptist church Birmingham by white supremacists -
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 -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin -
“Bloody Sunday”/Selma to Montgomery March
when the state and local police used billy clubs, whips, and tear gas to attack hundreds of civil rights activists beginning a march from Selma, Alabama, to the state capitol in Montgomery. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote as guaranteed under the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. -
Loving v. Virginia
the court ruled that laws banning interracial marriage violate the Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses