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Brown Vs. Board of Education
The court ruled "separate but equal" in the Brown vs. Board of Education case. The court held that the racial segregation of children in public schools violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The Brown vs. Board of Education case is now acknowledged as one of the greatest Supreme Court decisions of the 20th century. -
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Civil Rights Movement
The Civil Rights Movement was a ]mass protest movement against racial segregation and discrimination in the southern United States.
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Montgomery Bus Boycott
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SCLC
Formation of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference which was an African-American civil rights organization. This group was formed in 1957 just after the Montgomery Bus Boycott had just ended. The main goal of this group was to advance the cause of civil rights in America in a nonviolent manner. -
Little Rock Nine
The Little Rock Nine was a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School. -
Sit In Movement
North Carolina launched a wave of anti-segregation sit ins across the south and opened a national awareness of the depth of segregation in the nation. -
First Freedom Ride
Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States in 1961. Seven blacks and six whites left Washington D.C. on two public buses bound for the Deep South. -
Albany Movement
The Albany Movement was a desegregation alliance that was formed in Albany, Georgia. -
James Meredith
James Meredith became the first black student to enroll at the University of Mississippi. He enrolled at the university in 1962 and graduated with a degree for political science. -
Early 1963- Birmingham Movement
The Birmingham Movement was organized by the SCLC to bring attention to the integration efforts of African Americans in Birmingham, Alabama. -
March on Washington
The March on Washington was one of the largest political rallies for human rights in United States history and demanded civil and economic rights for African Americans. -
Ratification of the 24th Amendment
The United States ratified the 24th Amendment in which prohibited any poll tax in elections for federal officials. -
Freedom Summer
Freedom Summer was a volunteer campaign in the United States to attempt to register as many African-American votes as possible in Mississippi. -
Crisis in Mississippi
Three civil rights workers were abducted and murdered in Neshoba County, Mississippi. -
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. The Civil Rights Act is considered one of the crowning legislative achievements of the Civil Rights Movement. Congress expanded the act and also passed additional legislation aimed at bringing equality to African Americans, such as the Voting Rights Act of 1965. -
Selma March
600 people started a planned march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. When state troopers met the demonstrators at the edge of the city by the Edmund Pettus Bridge, that day became known as "Bloody Sunday". -
The Assassination of Medgar Evers
Medgar Evers at age 37, was a civil rights activist and field secretary for the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) in Mississippi and was shot in the back while walking up to his house. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson-aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote under the 5th Amendment.
