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Civil Rights Era

  • Desegregation of the military
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    Desegregation of the military

    Desegregation of the military was the United States letting African-Americans in the millitary
  • Montgomery Bus Boycott

    Montgomery Bus Boycott

    Montgomery Bus Boycott was a political and social protest.
  • Plessy vs Furguson

    Plessy vs Furguson

    This was a Supreme Court issued in 1896 it upheld racial segergration
  • Formation of the NAACP

    Formation of the NAACP

    Formation of the NAACP was a civil rights organization.
  • The Civil Rights Act

    The Civil Rights Act

    ended segergration in places
  • Brown v Board of Education

    Brown v Board of Education

    Court declared that state laws establishing separate public schools for blacks and white students to be unconstitutional.
  • Rosa Parks

    Rosa Parks

    Rosa Parks was a black American that was riding a bus then she was told to get up from her seat so a white american can sit and she said no then she was in jailed.
  • The Freedom Riders

    The Freedom Riders

    They were black Americans that rode buses into the segergated south.
  • Martin Luther King Jr

    Martin Luther King Jr

    Martin Luther King Jr was the most visible spokesperson and leader in the Civil Rights Movment
  • Sit-ins

    Sit-ins

    Sit-ins was a form of protest were the demonstrators occupy a place until their demands are made.
  • The Congress of Racial Equality is formed

    The Congress of Racial Equality is formed

    The Congress of Racial Equality was an African-American civil rights organization
  • Emmit Till

    Emmit Till

    Emmit Till was a boy that was taken by to white males so they could kill him.
  • Boston Busing

    Boston Busing

    Boston Busing was a period in which Boston Public Schools were under court control to desegregate through a system of busing students.
  • The Little Rock 9

    The Little Rock 9

    The Little Rock 9 was nine black Americans that enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957.
  • Race Riots in Watts and other cities

    Race Riots in Watts and other cities

    The Watts Riots took place in Watts neighbourhood in Los Angeles from August 11 to 16, 1965
  • Voting Rights Act

    Voting Rights Act

    Voting Rights Act was barriers at local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising there right to vote.