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The KKK was a Christian led protest group. This was Americas first terrorist group that mainly targeted Black Americans and anyone who didn’t believe in Christianity. -
This was the law that made segregation legal and said that it was necessary but all Black and white Americans would receive the same treatment. This started most of the Jim Crow Laws. “Separate, but equal.”
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The NAACP spent decades fighting about the racial segregation that students were being treated with in schools. They were meant to be receiving the same materials to learn, but predominantly Black schools were severely poverty struck. Brown and the NAACP won the Supreme Court case. -
Rosa Parks was a Black woman who refused to give her seat up to a white man. She was arrested after riding for a few more stops. This then sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott where Black Americans refused to ride any city busses. They walked to and from work. -
In Little Rock, Arkansas, Nine Black Students arrived at Central High School to attend classes. Those kids were then met by the state National Guard, a screaming group of white people, and the mayor the town who were yelling at them to leave. -
President Eisenhower sent the proposal for a new law on Civil Rights. This act granted lawyers and federal prosecutors to pursue anyone who stopped people from registering to vote. -
A group of Black and white American students started fighting against segregation at a whites only lunch counter in the Woolworth store in Greensboro, North Carolina. They came in and sat down where they asked to be served calmly. The group was refused service, attacked and arrested -
An interracial group of protesters board busses in DC and they travelled south into states like Mississippi and Alabama to test the new presidential commitment to Civil Rights and Desegregation on interstate travel on busses. These people were met with the KKK and fire bombed -
achieved through the Freedom Rides of 1961
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black students attempts to in role in a university -
During the March on Washington, MLK gives his most memorable speech to drive awareness to unfair treatment and racism -
John F. Kennedy was the 35th President. He was shot dead in Dallas -
This was a law that stopped discrimination based on a persons race, religion, sex, and national origin. Gave a lot of rights to those who weren’t white Americans. -
The leader of nations of Islam. Shot while giving a speech in mammalians Audubon ballroom -
A petition and asking to remove any questions and obstruction that made it difficult for anyone of color who wanted to register to vote, whether it was with or against the law. Gave permission to vote in any elections and got rid of Poll Taxes and Literacy tests. -
Bobby Seate and Trudy Neuton founded the black panther to the non-violence civil rights activists. Seen with heavy weapons -
A Supreme Court unanimous struck down Virginia’s law prohibiting interracial marriage as a violation at the 14th amendment -
concluding that white racism was the primary cause and recommending significant changes to address racial inequality. -
5 month student strike First Nation ethics starting at San Francisco uni.