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Freedom of religion
The first amendment to the U.S. Constitution says that everyone in the U.S. has the righty practice his or her own religion -
Plessy v. Ferguson
The landmark decision of the U.S. supreme court in which court ruled racial segregation laws did not violate the U.S. constitution -
Brown V. Board of Education
Racial segregation in public schools violated the fourteenth amendment to the constitution -
Montgomery bus boycott Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks stayed on her spot on the bus when she wasn't supposed to stay there -
Emmet Till
He was murdered for ¨flirting with a white women¨ -
Sit in demonstration
Part of the nonviolent direct action campaign to end racial segregation at lunch counters downtown -
Ruby Bridges
Assorted o school to be the first one to go to an only white children's school -
First Freedom Rides
The journey of reconciliation, left Washington D.C. to travel through four states of the upper South -
Martin Luther King Jr
Led the movement to end segregation and counter prejudice in the Unit States through the means of peaceful protest -
Birmingham Bombing
The bombing of the 16th street baptist church on September 15, 1963 by members of the Ku Klux Klan that killed 4 and injured 22 -
March on Washington
King gives his famous ¨i have a dream¨ speech -
University of Alabama
Governer George C walls stans in the doorway at the University of Alabama to block two black students from registering -
Nobel Peace Prize
King got the Noble Peace Prize for combating racial inequality through nonviolence -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Preventing employment discrimination due to race, color, sex, religion, or national origin -
Malcolm X Assassination
Killed during a rally by members of the Nation of Islam -
Voting Right
Prevent the use of literacy tests as a voting requirement