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Sit-ins begin
Month and day were not found for this event. This is when a group of people would group together, and buy coffee. They would sit there until they wrere forced to move, or arrested, sometimes evicted. -
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
Date is the day that it was decided upon. This was a court case decideding upon if blacks and whit students should got to the same school. I think it was important becasue it was a big day for Americans white or black because some of us learned to accept them as people, and gerations later found it easier to accept them as equal because they learned the same stuff and went to the same school. -
Massive resistance of White Citizen Counciles
The date is the date that the group was formed. This was agroup of people that was against making every race equal, they wanted to make whites seem likey they were better people.This was a big deal because some of the white people stuck up for colored people, they understood why they needed to be equal, and started to support them. -
Rosa Parks' Bus Ride
This is the account of when Rosa McCauley refused to move over in a bus so that a white apssenger could take her seat, because the section for white people was already full. This is imporant because it showed that Rosa just wasn't being stuborn, or acting aginst the law, she was sitting the section she was allowed in. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
When the United States Supreme Court said that the laws requiring segregatd bueses were unconstitutional. Many imporant people decided to boycott, including Martin Luther King, Jr. and Ralph Abernathy. I think this is important because it showed that it wasn't just once person who was upset at this unfair treament, it was a whole race of people that were being treated badly, for no just reason. -
The "LIttle Rock Niine" Students enter a white public school
This is when a group of colored students were enrold to a white school, in Little Rock Central High School. This was another mark in history that helped children see that the colored children were just as good, sometimes the children got to see that maybe their parents views that were being forced on the child was wrong -
Freedom Rides
The month and day were unable to be found for this event, only the year is accurate. People called freedom riders would go to places in the town that forced segregation, together white and black people would go into these places, often this caused violent reactions. This is imporant because it caused many places to stop segregation. -
Birmingham Prtests
The year is only valid on this event, it wast he year of the movment. This group of people was lead by Martin Luther King, Jr. and other people in the spring of 1963. -
March on Washington
This was a speach talking about the the freedom of america. The speach was givin by Martin Luther King, Jr. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
This was a law that made sure that only the people that passed at test that showed they could write and read could vote.