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He was the first African American lawyer and also fought for the civil rights of African Americans. He also served on the supreme court. He is most famous for working on the Brown Vs. Board case.
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NAACP was created in 1909 by an interracial group consisting of W.E.B. Du Bois, Ida Bell Wells-Barnett, Mary White Ovington, and others concerned with the challenges facing African Americans
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Rosa Parks is probably most famous for not giving her seat up on the bus for a white person. The punishment for this was that she got arrested.
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Malcolm X was a civil rights activist who was the spokesperson for the Nation of Islam until 1964. Malcolm X told the black Americans to protect themselves from the white Americans stating by "any means necessary. Malcolm X died on February 21, 1965.
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Martin Luther King Jr. was born on January 15, 1929. He was shot and killed on April 4, 1968. Martin Luther King worked hard for the rights of African Americans and them being able to vote. He never got to see the day that they got to vote without problems. He is probably most famous for his I give a dream speech but he did way more than that and got arrested on several occasions.
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He was the first African American student to attend the University of Mississippi.
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John Lewis worked for the rights of black Americans and even served in the House from 1987 to his death in 2020. John Lewis was a hard-working man and oftentimes would refuse help. -
He created the slogan black power. But little do people know he wasn't born in America.
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Emmett Louis Till was a 14-year-old African American boy who was abducted, tortured, and lynched in Mississippi in 1955, after being accused of offending a white woman in her family's grocery store
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From January 1, 1942, to December 31, 1942, an interracial group of students in Chicago, the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) pioneered the use of nonviolent direct action in America’s civil rights struggle.
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Bobby Seale/Huey P. Newton was the founder of the Black Panthers. They were activists that were fighting for African American rights.
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On July 26, 1948, President Harry S. Truman issued an executive order ridding of all segregation in the armed forces and ordering integration in all branches.
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The supreme court rules that segregation in schools was unconstitutional meaning that different races could to a school that was meant for whites only. Ruling that separate- but- equal in education and other services were not equal.
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Ruby Bridges was the first African American to go to an only white school. She faced a lot of people coming after her. People would call her names.
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The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a civil rights protest during which African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery, Alabama, to protest segregated seating.The boycott took place from December 5, 1955, to December 20, 1956.
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With the goal of redeeming “the soul of America” through nonviolent resistance, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) was established in 1957 to coordinate the action of local protest groups throughout the South
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They were going to attend their high school but the governor tried to stop them from entering President Dwight D. Eisenhower sent federal troops to escort them into the school. Minnijean Brown, Elizabeth Eckford, Ernest Green, Thelma Mothershed, Melba Patillo, Gloria Ray, Terrence Roberts, Jefferson Thomas, and Carlotta Walls were the ones trying to get into the school.
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The Greensboro sit-in was a civil rights protest that started on Feb 1, 1960, when young African American students staged a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth’s lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, and refused to leave after being denied service.
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I think that the Greensboro sit-ins because the POC were not forced to do it, was their choice and it was proven to work because the whites could refuse them service, but the students who staged it refused to leave after being denied service. -
From April 15, 1960, to May 1, 1971, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was founded in April 1960 by young people dedicated to nonviolent, direct action tactics.
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Freedom Riders were groups of white and African American civil rights activists who participated in Freedom Rides, bus trips through the American South in 1961 to protest segregated bus terminals.
https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/freedom-rides#:~:text=Freedom%20Riders%20were%20groups%20of,to%20protest%20segregated%20bus%20terminals.) -
From April 3, 1963, to May 10, 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) joined with Birmingham, Alabama’s existing local movement, the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights (ACMHR), in a massive direct action campaign to attack the city’s segregation system by putting pressure on Birmingham’s merchants during the Easter season, the second-biggest shopping season of the year -
Evers was a husban and a WWII vetern. Not only were these his acomplishment but he was a civil rights acctivist. He also served as a NAACP secratary. He helped with putting together protests.
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250,000 people gathered in front of the Lincon Memorial. They went for Jobs and Freedom. Marting Luther King had a lot to do with this event.
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I personally think that Martin Luther King Jr. was the most effective. Now even though he came in almost like the last person to fight for these things. He is probably the most effective because he held protests and when he got arrested he kept fighting for his people. He even pursued white Americans to believe that African Americans should get their right to vote. But not everyone as we saw with his assignation. But he would have loved to see how far the African Americans have gotten. -
Baptist Church, in Birmingham Alabama, was bombed on September 15, 1963, by the KKK in the end four African Americans were killed. This wasn't the first time that a bomb had gone off in Birmingham in fact it happened so much that it was known as Bombingham. But the reason that this one was so big is that African Americans fought back against the police but most of them were a part of the KKK
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This act not only didn't allow judgment of race but gender religion, and origin.
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This is when over 700 white Americans went and protested with African Americans that they should get their right to vote.
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Martin Luther King JR. had a march to protest the rights that Black Americans. Demanding that they needed the rights that white Americans have.
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This act was put into place so that black people could vote without the trouble that white people gave them. President Johnson signed this into play.
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On August 11, 1965, riots broke out all over the Black Communities of Los Angeles.
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Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale established The Black Panther Party (BPP) in Oakland, California in 1966. The organization––originally named the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense––first established neighborhood patrols and protected residents from police brutality
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The Poor People's Campaign (PPC) was created on December 4, 1967, by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) to address the issues of unemployment, housing shortages for the poor, and the impact of poverty on the lives of millions of Americans and it ended June 19, 1968. https://www.blackpast.org -
Martin Luther King was shot at 6:05 on Thursday, April 4, 1968. At the Lorraine Hotel by James Earl Ray.
https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/assassination-martin-luther-king-jr
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