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Determined that segregation in public schools was considered unconstitutional. Brown v.s. Board of Education overruled the “separate but equal” principal. Brown v.s. Board of Education determined black and white schools were not equal. -
Emmet Till was a 14-year-old African American boy. He was accused of harassing a white woman. Afterwards Emmet was kidnapped, tortured, and lynched in Mississippi. -
Rosa Parks help with the civil rights movement. She refused to give up her seat to a white man on a bus in Motogmery, Alabama, in 1955. It then lead to the Montgomery Bus Boycott that lasted more than a year. -
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference is a civil rights organization. It was founded in 1957. Martin Luther King, Jr., and others founded the SCLC to have a regional organization. They wanted to have better organized civil rights protest activities.- [TimeToast] https://nationalsclc.org/about/history/
- [TimeToast] https://www.nps.gov/subjects/civilrights/sclc.htm
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Little Rock Nine was a group of nine black students who enrolled in an all white school. They attended Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in September 1957. These students had to be escorted by federal troops in order to not get harassed by the white students. -
Four black college freshmen sat down at a “whites-only” Woolworth’s lunch counter in Greensboro, N.C. These four black college freshmen were Joseph McNeil, Franklin McCain, Ezell Blair Jr., and David Richmond. But these students were refused service and the white waiter suggested they order a take-out meal from the stand up
counter. The students did not move and this sparked a sit-in movement in 55 different cities. 1 [TimeToast] https://www.history.com/news/greensboro-four-sit-in-civil-rights -
Youth group of students remained fiercely independent of MLK and SCLC, generating their own projects and strategies. The two organizations worked side by side throughout the early years of the civil rights movement. This group was the second half of the Freedom riders and were a part of the March to Selma. -
Freedom Riders were groups of white and African American civil rights activists. They took bus rides through the American South. They tried to use “white-only” stations in the Southern states. These groups were confronted by police officers and received violence from white protesters. Their bus was bombed and this caused international attention. -
The March on Washington for jobs and freedom was to advocate for the civil and economic rights of African Americans. Martin Luther King Jr., was the last to speak, and gave his I have a dream speech. 70-80% of the protestors were black. This helped pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964. -
Service could not be refused. Forbids employers and labor unions to discriminate. Race, color, religion, sex, and physical disability in job related matters can’t be used to discriminate one. It prohibits discrimination of all kind.- [TimeToast] https://www.roberthmayer.com/civil-rights-act
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600 students marched from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama to get the right to vote. They walked a total of 54 miles and were stopped at the bridge seen on national television. LBJ ordered the passage of 1965 voting rights law. There as also a 2nd March and this included 25,000 marchers and Martin Luther King Jr. . -
One of the most comprehensive pieces of legislation in history. Blacks were registering to vote and being elected to public office. President Lyndon B. Johnson aimed to overcome legal barriers.
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