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Civil Rights Movement

By hasenoa7026
  • Brown v. Board of Education

    Brown v. Board of Education

    A supreme court case that ended racial segregation in public schools.
  • Rosa Parks

    Rosa Parks

    Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama on a bus.
  • Greensboro, North Carolina

    Greensboro, North Carolina

    Four college students refuse to leave a whites only lunch counter without being served.
  • March on Washington

    March on Washington

    250,000 marched in D.C. for civil rights. Martin Luther King gives his I have a dream speech.
  • Civil Rights Act

    Civil Rights Act

    President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the act to prevent employment discrimination.
  • Voting Rights Act

    Voting Rights Act

    President Johnson signed to prevent literacy tests from being a voting requirement.
  • Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.

    Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.

    Martin Luther King Jr. was shot on the balcony of his hotel room in Tennessee.