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This 9–0 decision overturned the "separate but equal" doctrine established by Plessy v. Ferguson ruling, declaring that separate educational facilities are "inherently unequal". -
The murder of a 14 years- old in mississippi was kidnapped and and brutally tortured and shot just for talk to a white woman in a market and the killers were found not guilty. -
She was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white man on a montgomery, Alabama bus. -
Nine African American students became the first to desegregate Little Rock Central High School in Arkansas, defying intense harassment and a blockade by the National Guard ordered by Governor Orval Faubus. -
At the F.W. Woolworth lunch counter in North Carolina, where four Black NC AT students—Joseph McNeil, Franklin McCain, Ezell Blair Jr., and David Richmond—peacefully protested segregation. This action sparked a massive, months-long movement, resulting in the lunch counter’s desegregation. -
A pivotal series of civil rights protests where interracial groups of activists rode interstate buses into the segregated Southern United States to challenge the non-enforcement of U.S. Supreme Court rulings. -
Martin Luther King Jr.’s "Letter from Birmingham Jail" is a foundational document of the Civil Rights Movement, defending nonviolent direct action against injustice. -
Was a massive political demonstration in Washington, D.C., that became a defining moment for the Civil Rights Movement. Approximately 250,000 people gathered at the Lincoln Memorial to protest racial discrimination and demand equal rights and economic justice. -
Was a white supremacist terrorist attack that occurred in Birmingham, Alabama. It was carried out by members of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) who planted at least 15 sticks of dynamite beneath the church's steps. -
Signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson the Civil Rights Act is a landmark piece of legislation that outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. -
Prohibits federal and state governments from requiring a poll tax to vote in federal elections. -
The first of three historic Selma to Montgomery marches for voting rights in Alabama, after being given two minutes to disperse, the troopers attacked with tear gas, bullwhips, and billy clubs. -
Signed into law by President Lyndon B , the Voting Rights Act (VRA) is a landmark federal statute designed to enforce the 15th Amendment, outlawing discriminatory voting practices—such as literacy tests and poll taxes. -
Landmark civil rights decision of the United States Supreme Court which held that laws banning interracial marriage violate the Equal Protection and Due Process clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. -
The assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. occurred at 6:01 p.m. in Memphis, Tennessee. King was fatally shot while standing on the second-floor balcony of the Lorraine Motel.
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