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Brown V Borad of Education
It was about a 7-year-old girl in Topeka, Kansas not being able to go to an all-white school since it was right around her block but instead she had to walk a mile in order to get to school when there was an all-white school right near her house. The decision was to let her go to the all-white school. It had marked an end to the “Separate but Equal,” precedent 60 years old during the Plessey v Ferguson Case. -
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Montgomery Bus Boycott
It started when Rosa Parks refused to give her sit to a white man. She was arrested and put into court. Therefore African Americans had refused to ride on the Montgomery buses on the day of her court appearance. The goal was to integrate Montgomery buses. It lasted from December 5, 1955, through December 20, 1956. The people involved were the MIA an organization with president of the organization Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. People also involved were Ralph Abernathy, Johnnie Carr, Robert S, Graet -
Formation of SCLC
The formation of the SCLC was on January 10, 1957, which was following after the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Their goals were to gain Civil Rights for African Americans and to integrate schools. Their leader was Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. -
Formation of SNCC and the integration of Woolworths Lunch Counter
The formation of the SNCC was created when University students of North Carolina students of the sit-in movement had met with Ella Baker who was Executive Secretary of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and they established (SNCC) short for Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee. When four African American North Carolina students sat down at the Woolworth’s in Greensboro. When asked for service they were rufused and they had to leave. Instead sat peacefully without leaving -
Admission of Charlayne Hunter & Hamilton Holmes into the University of Georgia
It was about two African American students named Charlayne Hunter and Hamilton Holmes who wanted to attend the University of Georgia. They were the first African American students to be admitted to the University, which was one of the many segregated southern institutions. Hamilton Holmes had served as chief of orthopedics at the Veterans Administration hospital in Atlanta. Charlayne Hunter was the editorial assistant for the New Yorker magazine in 1963. -
Freedom Riders
They were Civil Rights Activists who rode interstate buses to the segregated South of the United States in 1961. They were the Congress of Racial Equality who made up most of the Freedom rides, but some were also organized by the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and the CORE who participated in the freedom rides. They began their freedom ride from Washington D.C. through Virginia, Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi ending in New Orleans, Louisiana. They were going to Anniston and -
Albany Movement
The Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference led by William G. Anderson, a local black Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Had a goal to integrate public facilities and to end all form of racial segregation in Albany, Georgia. They had rallies but they all had failed, but the Albany movement had provided insight on the media. -
March on Washington
The goal was to give people of all races the chance to have a job and to be free without being told what to do and what jobs they can and cannot have. James Farmer of the (CORE), Martin Luther King, Jr. of the (SCLC), John Lewis of the (SNCC), A. Philip Randolph (CAR), Roy Wilkins(NAACP).Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. who gives his Kings speech while saying his speech for freedom he says his last words stating “Free at last, free at last. Thank God Almighty, we are free at last.” -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
It had made all segregated public facilities illegal in which included restaurants’, theaters, hotels, public recreational areas, schools, and libraries. It also had prohibited discrimination in a business or labor unions. It was a far-reaching and important civil rights legislation since -
Voting rights Act of 1965
That all races were given the right to have equal voting rights as whites. It allowed for African Americans to vote for a president that they wanted to have in their own opinion, and it also allowed all races to vote without going through a bunch of tests like the literacy test just to vote. It changed the way how people of different races vote. Lyndon B. Johnson was president at this time. -
Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. had believed in Jesus’ and his commandment of loving your neighbor as yourself, loving God above all, and loving your enemies, praying for them and blessing. His nonviolent thought was known to based on the injuction to turn the other cheek in the Sermon on the Mount, and Jesus’ teaching of putting the sword back into its place. During Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. role in the Civil Rights Movement, he had help inspire both African Americans and Whites.
