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Jackie Robinson and the desegregation of baseball
Was the first to break thebaseball'scolor barrier to play for the Dogers -
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Brown v. Board of Education
declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional as many colored students had a seperate school from the white people and was a major victory in the civil rights movement. -
Emmett Till
While visiting family in Money, Mississippi, 14-year-old Emmett Till. Is brutally murdered for flirting with a white woman four days earlier. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
It was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public rides of Montgomery, Alabama. Directed from the Emmett Till to stand up for thier rights. -
Little Rock Crisis
A school in little rock would let there school be a school for everyone after the supreme courts ruling as a result from Brown v. Board of Education. -
Sit-ins (Greensboro, NC)
African American students from Technical State University sat at a white-only lunch counter inside Greensboro was infulnced by the little rock student school -
Freedom Riders
Were a groud of people who headed down to the south to use non-violent protest where some people got hurt but to show not everyhting should be a bloody war, as infulnced by the Sit-in -
Meredith and Ole Miss
a riot fought between Southern segregationist civilians and federal and state forces because Meredith applied as a student with strong experience as an Air Force veteran and good grades and was a reult used by Brown vs Board -
Civil Rights protest in Birmingham
it was to bring attention to the efforts of African Americans in Birmingham of intergration but some didnt end so well infulenced by crisis in little rock, brown vs board and meredith -
March on Washington
200,000 Americans gathered in Washington, D.C. for a rally for jobs and freedom of speech wher Dr.king's speech of "I have a dream" was said was connected from the bus boycott as well! -
Birmingham Church Bombing
A bomb blast at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, kills four African-American girls while church was in session Which was a result from the white people from getting furious from the bus boycott. -
Freedom Summer Project (Mississippi)
campaign to attempt to register as many African-American voters as possible in Mississippi but many people were killed or bombed in process -
Civil Rights Act
that outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. meaning that children of all races could now go to school together instead of seperated as a result from the little rock crisis moving people to this direction seeing what people were doing wrong to the races. -
Selma March
To show the racial injustice in the South and have a peaceful march to show they have rights to vote but got stopped by police many of times infulenced by civil rights protest in burmingham -
Voting Rights Act
eliminated various test that were used to not allow colored people to vote this happened because the civil rights act pushed new acts to let colored people do the same thing a white person can.
