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Brown vs. Board of Education
Schools were segregated and African Americans sued the school board for not letting their children go to white schools so the school board let the states decide whether or not their schools would be segregated , Schools were ordered to desegregate -
Segregated schools
Schools weere segregated in an unfair way, African American schools were worse. -
The Montgomery Bus Boycott
Rosa Parks wouldn't give up her seat on a bus to a white person so she got arrested and people, African Americans and some whites, started the Bus Boycott by not riding the buses causing busses to lose lots of money -
Crisis in Little Rock
Nine African Americans went to a recently desegregated school and people physically and mentally hurt them, causing the president to send federal troops to protect the girls and only one stayed in school the entire time -
Greensboro Lunch Counter Sit In
Peaceful protest where people just sat in places, to fill up seats, and did nothing but mind their own buisness, and ignored anything that other people would say or do to them. -
Washington March
People came together to protest/ demand equality -
Birmingham
cities wwere segregated and when peacefull African Americans protested, police offficers and gaurds would beat them but they did nothing so they seemed inocent -
Children's march
^,000 cchildren marched and police did same to them as adults, 600 were arressted -
Church bombing
People bombed an African American church that wass very peaceful and injurred many -
Malcolm X
Favored segregation till he met with King, then he changed his attitude and started to want equality, but was assinated -
Voting rights act
Allowed federal officials to register voters in states where locacl officials refusesd to -
Voting Rights Act
it aloud literary tests that could be done on African Americans to prevent the from voting -
Dr. King's assanination
Dr. King was killed by James Earl Ray in Memphis, Tennessee
