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Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks stands up (stays seated actually) and protests the Montgomery Bus segregation. -
Little Rock 9
Elizabeth Eckford and 8 other high school students are abused on their way to desegregated Central High School. -
Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom (D.C.)
Many members walked to D.C. Lincoln Monument, people from more than 30 states. -
Temple Bombing
In Atlants, GA dynamite was placed in the towns oldest and most known synagogue AKA "the temple". -
Albany Movement
Citizens of Albany, Georgia decided to campaign against all segregation throughout the community. -
Freedom Riders
Many waited for busses to ride into segregated counties to make US enforce desegregation laws -
Augusta Movement
Paine College students start to arrange sit-ins in department stores around town. -
Birmingham Campaign
Bull Connor turns on public with fire hoses and police K-9 units, MLK arrested...later wrote the famous letter from Birmingham Jail. -
Freedom Summer and Selma March
Voter registration campaign in south, loses literacy test. Lots of white volunteers, some women, taken and abused by local KKK. -
Memphis Sanitation Strike
African American sanitation workers refused to show up to work due to poor wages and working conditions.
