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Segregation in public schools was fund to go against the 14th Amendment of the Constitution. -
apolitical/social protest against the segregation on public transportation (in this case, buses) in Montgomery, Alabama. -
A group of African American students enrolled in the previously all white school, Central High School, in Little Rock, Arkansas. -
The bill was signed by Dwight D. Eisenhower. It prohibits discrimination based on race, religion, gender, or nationality. -
a non-violent protest that took place in Greensboro, North Carolina. It led to the ending the segregation and discrimination in the Woolworth Department Store. -
Riots began at the University of Mississippi has segregationists protested the enrollment of James Meredith, a black Air Force veteran. -
this was a symbol of George Wallace's effort to stop desegregation of schools. -
The March on Washington was a call for equality and freedom for all U.S citizens. The I Have a Dream Speech was delivered by Martin Luther King Jr, which became one of the most defining and iconic speeches in American History. -
a white supremacy terrorist bombing of a baptist church in Birmingham, Alabama. -
A volunteer campaign in attempt to register as many African Americans as possible. -
The law prohibits discrimination based on race, gender, nationality, etc. -
This law prohibited discriminatory voting practices based on gender, race, religion, nationality, etc. -
A black power organization founded by Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton. -
Supreme Court banned laws that prohibited interracial marriages violated the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S Constitution. -
James Earl Ray shot Martin Luther King in Memphis, Tennessee.