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Brown vs. Board of Education
A Supreme Court landmark decision that ruled segregation in schools unconstitutional. -
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Brown vs. Board of Education
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Emmett Till murder
14 year-old Emmett till was on vacation in Mississippi and was brutally murdered for flirting with a white woman. -
Rosa Parks & the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Rosa Parks refused to give her seat up to a white man on a Montgomery bus. This inspired other people to protest against racial segregation in public places. -
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Rosa Parks & the Montgomery Bus Boycott
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Little Rock 9
Nine African American students were chosen to integrate an all white high school in Little Rock, Arkansas. -
Greensboro Woolworth's Sit-ins
A major civil-rights protest that started in Greensboro, NC when young Black college students would stage sit-ins at Woolworth's and would not leave after being denied service. This inspired many people in the south to do the same and forced Woolworth's and other establishments to change their segregation policies. -
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Greensboro Woolworth's Sit-ins
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Freedom Rides
Civil rights activists would ride interstate buses into the segregated Southern United States challenging a Supreme Court decision that declared segregated facilities for interstate passengers illegal. -
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Freedom Rides
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March on Washington
A march held in Washington, DC to advocate civil rights of African Americans. Around 250,000 people attended. -
Birmingham Baptist Church bombing
A bombing conducted by white supremacists in Birmingham, AL in which 4 girls died. -
Civil Rights Act
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is a landmark civil rights and labor law in the US in which discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, and later sexual orientation, and gender identity is outlawed. This enforced desegregation of schools and the right for people to vote. -
"Bloody Sunday"/ Selma to Montgomery March
Three protest marches held in 1965 from Selma, AL to the state capital of Montgomery. -
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"Bloody Sunday"/ Selma to Montgomery March
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Voting Rights Act
A landmark piece of federal legislation in the US that prohibits racial discrimination in voting. -
Loving v. Virginia
A landmark civil rights case in which the court ruled laws banning interracial marriage unconstitutional. They violated the Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment.