Civil Rights movement

By amehring
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    Civil Rights

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    Raid on Harper's Ferry

    John Brown and sons kill slave masters
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    Civil War

    battle between north and south based on the premise of slavery and civil rights
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    Reconstruction

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    Jim Crow laws

    laws that enforced racial segregation

  • NAACP founded

    founded by WEB DuBois, Thurgood Marshall lawyer guy

  • Tuskeegee Airmen

    Distinguished 332nd fighter group that opened the door for an unsegregated military

  • Segregation ruled illegal

    I think it was everything-Arnav

  • Brown v. Board of Education

    Thurgood Marshall, my boy, wins case ending segregation in schools.

  • montgomery bus boycott

    rosaparks Alabama
    one year boycott

  • Emmett Till murdered

    14 year old kidnapped and murdered in Mississippi
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    Montgomery Bus Boycott

    African Americans refused to ride busses until segregation removed; Rosa Parks

  • Little Rock Nine

    The nine students involved in the desegregation of the little rock central high school

  • James Meredith at Ole Miss

    first black student at University of Mississippi; a lot of riots; JFK president who sends 5000 troops

  • I have a dream speech

    Martin Luther King Jr. gave the I have a dream speech in Washington D.C.

  • Civil Rights march in Washington

    Civil rights march in Washington where Bob Dylan played; Sarah is a hippie

  • 24th amendment

    Abolished the poll tax which was instituted to make sure that poor blacks could not afford to vote

  • Shirley Chisoslm elected to congress

    first African American woman elected to congress

  • Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated

    at a motel in Memphis, TN

  • Berlin Wall torn down

    ended segregation between east and west Berlin

  • Rosa Parks dies

    Rosa Parks, activist who inadvertly started the Montgomery bus boycott, dies.

  • Same sex marriage

    same sex marriages legalized