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Brown VS. Board of Education
A huge US Supreme Court case where the Court declared slate laws establishing seperate schools for whites and blacks to be unconstitutional. -
Rosa Parks getting arrested
Rosa Parks who is a black seamstress refused to moved from the white section of the bus and was arrested. -
Little Rock Central High School intergration
After the Governor refused to let the 9 black students into to school, President Eisenhower sent federal troops to escort the nine kids into the school, and they had their first full day of school on September 25th -
Greensboro sit in
On February 1, 1960 a few North Carolina agricultural and tech students went into a department store and staged a sit in at their lunch counters -
Freedom rides
A group of student Activists left D.C. to go into the deep south to test local compliance with the two new Supreme Court that banned segregated condemnations on interstate buses, and stations. -
March on Washington
a quarter million people covered the nations capitol protesting racial discrimination, and supporting civil right legislation. -
Selma-Montgomery March
Due to local resistance of letting blacks vote in Dallas county, Alabama, the SCLC led a mass march from Selma to Montgomery. -
MLK assassinated
while standing on his hotel room balcony in Memphis, Tennessee MLK was shot by a sniper and killed.
