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African Americans refused to ride on the city bus as a protest against segregated seating. This was one of the first large-scale U.S. demonstrations against segregation. -
A 14 year old boy was murdered in a racist attack that stunned the nation.Affter “hitting” on a women at a grocery store, till was taken from his house and brutally murdered.This attack merged the civil rights movement. -
The governor in Arkansas refused to let African Americans in the central high school. Guards stood in front of the school and did not let the nini kids in. After this they stopped public schools for a while, which didn't really affect the white people because most had money to attend a private school. -
the first federal civil rights legislation passed by the United States Congress since the Civil Rights Act of 1875. empowered federal prosecutors to obtain court injunctions against interference with the right to vote. -
denied the school board of Little Rock, Arkansas, the right to delay racial desegregation for 30 months.States must obey the decisions of the Supreme Court and cannot refuse to follow them. -
Albany protesters utilized various methods of nonviolence, including mass demonstrations, jail-ins, sit-ins, boycotts, and litigation.
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a series of political protests against segregation by Blacks and whites who rode buses together through the American South in 1961. -
an American movement organized in early 1963 by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to bring attention to the integration efforts of African Americans in Birmingham, Alabama. -
political demonstration held in Washington, D.C., in 1963 by civil rights leaders to protest racial discrimination and to show support for civil rights legislation that was pending in Congress. -
an American Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a prominent figure during the civil rights movement.assassinated by rival Black Muslims while addressing his Organization of Afro-American Unity at the Audubon . -
King was standing on the second-floor balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, where he and his associates were staying,then a sniper bullet struck him in the neck -
The Fourteenth Amendment permits the systematic use of buses to convey children of different races across district lines to further the goal of integrating public schools.This maintains segregated public schools and defies the Supreme Court's decision to desegregate public schools with "all deliberate speed". -
Chisholm represented New York's 12th congressional district, a district centered on Bedford–Stuyvesant, for seven terms from 1969 to 1983.she became the first black candidate for a major-party nomination for President of the United States. -
State delegates go to the national convention to vote to confirm their choice of candidates. But if no candidate gets the majority of a party's delegates during the primaries and caucuses, convention delegates choose the nominee.
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Hank Aaron of the Atlanta Braves hits his 715th career home run, breaking Babe Ruth's legendary record of 714 homers.
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