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Las Casas
Las Casas was one of the first civil rights movement to happen we think. He spoke out against Natives and Africans. He spent 50 years trying to make it easier for natives and africans. He made his speach on christmas eve 1515 while King Ferdinad lay ill in bed. -
Act of Toleration
To allow for toleration of both Protestants and Catholics in Maryland. -
Truman signs executive order
It says that there shall be equality of treatment and opportunity for every persons to have equal rights. -
Suprem court rules on a landmark case.
Brown went up againsst the board of education to see that every child got the same education as each other. -
Emmett Till
Emmett Till was a black 14 year old boy who has speach trouble. He heard that if you whistle then that will help you get over it. One day he was whistling and a woman walked out and he whistled at her. Later he was kidnapped and choped up to pecices. His parents were davestated and the white men that did it didnt even get charged because they were in front of an all white jury. -
Rosa Park
Rosa Park was a black ladie that was in the front of the bus where the whites sit and she refused to give up her seat to a white man. She got arrested and that led to the Montgomery black community launches a bus boycott. -
Martin Luther King
Established the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, of which King is made the first president. -
Blacks in School
In Central High School they learned that nine black kids were going to there school. They were block from going inside the school by the on the orders of Governor Orval Faubus. They becausem know as "Little Rock Nine". -
Blacks at a Bar
Four black students are at a bar and they are not getting survas but they dont go. This event triggers many non-violent protest in the south. Six month later they are served food at the same restraunt. -
Freedom Riders
Over the summer and spring, students took bus trips through the south to test out new laws that prohibbit segregation. Several freedom riders were attacked by angry mobs along the way. -
James Meredith
He became the first black student to enroll at the Univercity of Mississippi. Presedent Kenneddy sent 5000 troops to protect him. -
Arrest of Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested when the anti-segregation protest in Birmingham. While in there he writes his famous speech. -
I Have a Dream Speech
In 1963 Martin Luther King Jr. spoke his famous "I have a dream" speech to the world. About 200000 people were at the Lincon Memeriol. -
Protest Continues.
During the civil rights protest, Commisioner of Public Saftey said that whites could use police dogs and fire hoses to stop the protest of the blacks. -
Jacksson Miss
Killed 37 year old Medgar Evers right outside his house. His family tride the jury twice but failed both times because they were black and the ury were all white. 30 years later he was convicted for murder. -
Bomb Explodes
A little 4 year old girl was kiled when she was walking to sunday school and killed when a bomb exploded at the Sixteenth Baptist Church. It was a popular place to take civil rights meeting. -
24 Amendment
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Civil Rights act of 1964
This was about a landmark peice of legislation that outlawed major forms of discrimidation against racial, ethnic, national and reliigion. -
Three Missing Children
Three bodies of the civil rights workers, two white men and one black man, were found in an eastern dam. They were killed by the Ku Klux Klan. -
Voting rights act
An acts that will renforce the 15th amendment fot the Constotution of the United States.
