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civil rights movement

By urjohn
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    civil Rights movemont

  • Segregation is illegal

    Segregation is illegal
    whites and blacks were in different and whites didn't like that so they made themselves better. that made it so they had different schools and restaurants for blacks and whites
  • Emmett Till

     Emmett Till
    August 28, 1955 a kid named Emmett Till gets kidnapped and murdered in money Mississippi for making a fight.
  • Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr

    Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr
    Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr is a leader of a bocott
  • Montgomery Bus Boycott

    Montgomery Bus Boycott
    Rosa parks gets arrested for not giving up her set to a white person even though she was there first
  • Martin Luther King Jr. president of the SCLC

    Martin Luther King Jr. president of the SCLC
    SCLC, a organization to fight for civil rights which Martin Luther King Jr.is leader of.
  • Civil Rights Act of 1957

    Civil Rights Act of 1957
    the Civil Rights Act of 1957 was a federal voting rights bill, was the first federal civil rights legislation passed by the United States Congress since the Civil Rights Act of 1875.
  • Temple Bombing

    Temple Bombing
    October 12, 1958 dynamite exploded at Hebrew Benevolent Congregation
  • New Orleans school

    New Orleans school
    in November 14, 1960 there was 4 black girls that went to a white school for the first time. in two different schools Leona Tate, Tessie Prevost, Gaile Etienne at mcdonogh and Ruby Bridges at William Frantz
  • Martin Luther King Jr. joins protesters in Albany

    Martin Luther King Jr. joins protesters in Albany
    Martin Luther King Jr. went to Albany and joins the protesters there. Also he stays there for nine months.
  • Meredith

    Meredith
    Meredith is one of the first black to go to the University of Mississippi. which later started more blacks at university
  • Ross Barnett state to stop Meredith

    Ross Barnett state to stop Meredith
    Ross Barnett the governor of Mississippi tells the state to stop Meredith from entering the University of Mississippi
  • John f Kennedy

    John f Kennedy
    On November 22, 1963 President John f Kennedy was assassinated.
  • JFK speech

    JFK speech
    JFK had a speech that in he said that two kid could go to a college
  • Martin Luther King, Jr Nobel Peace Prize

    Martin Luther King, Jr Nobel Peace Prize
    Martin Luther King, Jr. was given the Nobel Peace Prize
  • equal stuff in public places

    equal stuff in public places
    bans discrimination in public places an able o drink at the same water fount en etc.