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Brown v. Board of Education outlawed racial segregation in public schools.
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Emmett till was a boy that was visiting family in Chicago when he whistled at a white girl and was later killed because of this action. When police found his body he was so disfigured that his mother could only tell it was him by his ring. -
Rosa Parks was arrest for refusing to move made the Montgomery Bus Boycott, a year-long protest that successfully ended segregated busing via the Supreme Court. -
The Little Rock Nine were black students who integrated a white Arkansas high school. -
The Greensboro sit-ins was a protest that sparked a nationwide movement to desegregate lunch counters and public spaces. -
The Freedom Rides were nonviolent protests where interracial groups rode buses through the South to challenge illegal terminal segregation. -
King’s letter is a powerful defense of nonviolent direct action and the moral necessity of disobeying unjust laws to achieve racial justice. -
a massive civil rights protest. -
Birmingham church bombing was a racist terrorist attack that killed four girls. -
The 24th Amendment outlawed the use of poll taxes in federal elections. -
outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin -
roughly 600 peaceful civil rights marchers were brutally attacked by state troopers and deputies while crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma -
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is a landmark federal law that banned discriminatory voting practices, like literacy tests, to protect the voting rights of racial minorities. -
ruled 16 states' bans on interracial marriage unconstitutional -
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was fatally shot by James Earl Ray at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis
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