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the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in the case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional -
a boycott where all African american people would not use the bus and would either walk or drive to work. -
In September 1957 nine African American students attended their first day at Little Rock Central High School, whose entire student population had until that point been white. -
a group of four freshmen from the Agricultural and Technical College of North Carolina, a historically black college, began a sit-in movement in downtown Greensboro -
six-year-old Ruby Bridges was escorted to her first day at the previously all-white William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans by four armed federal marshals. -
a group of seven African Americans and six whites, who boarded two buses bound for New Orleans. -
protested the segregation policies in Albany, Ga -
goal of the Birmingham campaign was to end discriminatory economic policies in the Alabama city against African American residents -
the largest political rally for human rights ever in the United States, protest for jobs and freedom for African Americans. -
Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson, signed the Civil Rights Act into law -
protest segregated housing, educational deficiencies, and employment and health disparities based on racism -
aimed at fighting the lack of voting rights for African Americans, went down in history as Bloody Sunday for the violent beatings state troopers inflicted on protesters as they attempted to march peacefully from Selma, Ala., to the state capital, Montgomery -
the prominent African American leader Malcolm X was assassinated while lecturing at the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem, New York -
Martin Luther King, Jr., organized a march from Selma, Alabama, to the state’s capital, Montgomery, to call for a federal voting rights law that would provide legal support for disenfranchised African Americans in the South -
A series of violent confrontations between the city police and residents of Watts and other predominantly African American neighborhoods of Los Angeles -
In the wake of the assassination of Malcolm X and urban uprisings, Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale founded the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California, to protect African American neighborhoods from police brutality -
Many groups and individuals vehemently opposed the Vietnam War in the massive peace movement of the 1960s and '70s. -
the U.S. Supreme Court declared the Virginia statutes prohibiting interracial marriage unconstitutional in the case Loving v. Virginia -
A series of violent confrontations between residents of predominantly African American neighborhoods and city police in Detroit -
Martin Luther King, Jr., was killed by a sniper while standing on the second-floor balcony at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. -
to gain more economic and human rights for poor Americans from all backgrounds. A multicultural movement, the campaign included Asian Americans, Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, Native Americans and whites along with African Americans.