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Brown vs. Board of Education
Separte but equal Educationl -
Emmett Till Murder
was murder while visting family for flirting with white women -
Rosa Parks & the Montgomery Bus Boycott
rosa parks refused to give up her seat while on the bus -
The Little Rock Nine and Integration
group of nine black high school students wh owere enrolled at a all white school -
Greensboro Woolworth's Sit-ins
young black men staged a sit-in at staged a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth’s lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, they refused to leave -
Freedom Rides
conceived in 1947 when CORE and the Fellowship of Reconciliation organized an interracial bus ride across state lines to test a Supreme Court decision that declared segregation on interstate buses unconstitutional. -
MLK’s Letter From Birmingham Jail
MLK jr wrote a longhand letter from Birmingham jail -
Birmingham Baptist Church Bombing
It was a quiet Sunday morning in Birmingham, Alabama it was about 10:24 on September 15, 1963 when a bomb went off -
March on Washington
a massitve protest march that occurred in August 2500000 people gathered in front of Lincoln memorail -
24th Amendment
prohibited states from requiring payment of a poll tax as a condition for voting in federal elections. -
Bloody Sunday”/Selma to Montgomery March
25 year old activist led Jhon led more then 600 marches -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War, including literacy tests as a prerequisite to voting. -
Loving v. Virginia
a court case that held the 14th amendment prohibits goverments from going againt people based on race