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The court case that pronounced that segregation in schools is unconstitutional. -
The murder of a 14 year old boy that was visiting family in Money, Mississippi for talking to a white girl. -
The Montgomery Bus boycott and the Rosa Parks situation were political and social protest against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system. -
A group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in which the Little Rock Crisis followed. -
A series of nonviolent protests from February to July primarily at the Woolworth's store. -
Civil rights movement in which activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated Southern United States. -
This was a march for jobs and freedom. The purpose of the march was to advocate for the civil and economic rights of African Americans. -
A racial terrorist bombing on an African American church. -
This was the nation's premier civil rights legislation. This act outlawed discrimination based on the color of a persons skin color, sex, religion, or national origin. -
A landmark piece of federal legislation in the United States that prohibits racial discrimination in voting. -
When an estimated 525 to 600 civil rights headed southeast out of Selma on U.S. Highway 80 led by John Lewis. State troopers met the marches and beat them. -
A landmark civil rights decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that laws banning interracial marriage violate the Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.