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Robert Carter led the NAACP legal team into trial. In most southern states segregation was the law. This Supreme Court Case decided that segregation was unconstitutional overthrowing the 1896 Plessy Vs. Ferguson ruling that segregated everything under their motto : "Separate But Equal". -
The Montgomery Bus Boycott occurred when Rosa Parks was arrested and African Americans in Montgomery organized a boycott of the bus system. Mass protests began across the nation. It lasted a total of 13 months and ended up making buses become unconstitutional. -
It was intended to protect the right of African Americans to vote and was created by Attorney General Herbert Brownell -
The school board in Little Rock, Arkansas, won a court order requiring that nine African American students were to be admitted to Central High, a school with 2,000 white students. Orval Faubus ordered troops from the Arkansas National Guard to prevent the 9 students from entering the school. They surrounded the school, including an angry white mob joining them to intimidate and protest against them. -
African Americans students staged sit-ins and formed the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee to organize efforts for desegregation and voter registration throughout the South and it brought in large numbers of idealistic and energized college students into the civil rights struggle. -
Groups of African Americans and white volunteers traveled into the South to draw attention to its refusal to integrate bus terminals and they rode on the interstate buses to challenge the United States. At first, there were only minor encounters, but eventually, they were beaten. -
James Meredith became the first black student to be in enrolled to the University of Mississippi. Kennedy dispatched 500 federal marshals to escort him out of the university beforehand in September 1962. Eventually, 160 marshals were wounded and Meredith went to the University of Mississippi under the protection of the federal guard until he graduated in August. -
American movement organized in early 1963 by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to bring attention to the integration efforts of African Americans in Birmingham.The Birmingham riot of 1963 was a civil disorder and riot in Birmingham, Alabama, that was provoked by bombings on the night of May 11, 1963. The bombings targeted African-American leaders of the Birmingham campaign. In response, local African-Americans burned businesses and fought police throughout the downtown area. -
"I Have a Dream" is a public speech that was delivered by American civil rights activist and Baptist minister Martin Luther King Jr. during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. -
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 gave the federal government broad power to prevent racial discrimination in a number of areas. It made segregation illegal in most places of public accommodation, and it gave citizens of all races and nationalities equal access to public facilities. -
The rights of citizens to vote for President, Vice-President, Senators, or Representative to Congress could not be denied or abridged (reduced) by paying a poll tax and Congress had the right to enforce this right. -
March of Freedom from Selma to the state capitol in Montgomery of about 50 miles. Hosea Williams and John Lewis led the march. 100 out of 600 marchers required medical attention by the end of the march because of fractured skulls, broken teeth and limbs, and gas poisoning -
It authorized the U.S. attorney general to send federal examiners to register qualified voters, bypassing local officials who often refused to register African Americans. It also suspended discriminatory devices like literacy tests in countries where less than half of all adults had been registered to vote. -
Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated by firearm by James Earl Ray. He was murdered in Memphis Tennessee and fatally shot on the balcony of his motel.