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The Supreme Court ruled unanimously that the segregation in public schools was unconstitutional and violated the equal protection laws put in place by the 14th amendment. -
Because congress was having trouble pushing the Civil Rights Bill through, there was a March On Washington to try and give it that final shove. It is famous for Martin Luther King JR's Speech. -
The leader of The Montgomery Bus Boycott was Martin Luther King JR, who helped prove that segregation isn't the best idea by boycotting going on buses. -
Nine African Americans were going to be admitted to school alongside 2,000 white kids. The governor of Arkansas wanted to show white supremacy and ordered that the kids should not enter the school. He had armed forces prevent them from entering,
Eisenhower didn’t like it so he sent troops to fight the governors. -
Four young African Americans who attend an African American college at Greensborough, Joseph McNeil, Ezell Blair JR, David Richmond, and Franklin McCain, decided to show that equal rights are necessary by staging a sit in at the schools at the school's white only lunch counter. -
They travelled to the south to draw attention to its refusal to integrate busses. There was an attack on the freedom riders by the Ku Klux Klan. -
James Meredith decided to switch schools and attend the University of Mississippi.The governor of Mississippi tried to block him and things got violent. JFK ordered 500 marshals to escort Meredith to school and they were attacked. -
The Civil Rights Act was focused on desegregation and job discrimination, not voting rights, and because of this, Sheriff Jim Clark armed white citizens, they terrorized many african american citizens who were trying to vote. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 authorized the US Attorney general to send federal examiners to register qualified voters. -
Malcolm X had gone to prison and been reformed. He worked with black muslims and believed that everyone needed to take part in their own culture, and give it their all. -
African Americans living in urban areas were done dirty, they could hardly find jobs, and poverty trapped them in big cities. Crime rate was increasing, and while those in urban neighborhoods knew there was a change coming, there was nothing being done to help them directly, since many of the movements wouldn’t affect them. The Black Panthers believed the only way to gain civil rights was to start a revolution.
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