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This was the court case that led Racial Segregation in public schools to be determined unconstitutional and paved the way for school we know today. -
While visiting family Emmett Till an African American from Chicago was murdered. It was said he was murdered because he allegedly flirted with a white woman 4 days earlier and provided a catalyst for the emerging civil rights movement -
This is a very famous subject as Rosa Parks was an important person in the civil rights movement. The story goes that while Rosa Parks was on a bus in Montgomery that a white person came and asked to get up out of her seat and move to the back of the bus. Rosa Parks retaliated and said no, which led to her arrest. This initiated a Boycott of the Montgomery buses. -
In 1957 a group of nine black students enrolled at a all-white high school in Arkansis. These students would be soon to be known as The Little Rock Nine. Their attendence of the school was a test of the Brown vs. Board of Education case and paved the way to the future. -
The Greensboro Woolsworth is a department store that had a racial segregation policy. After a series of non-violent protests of this policy it was removed. -
Freedom Riders were a group of civil rights activists who rode on segregated interstate buses that drove into the south. These protests led into a court case which ruled segregated public buses unconstitutional. -
The March on Washington is most likely one of the most well known protests of all time with around 250,000 people gathering in front of the Lincoln Memorial. This protest gave birth to the famous "I have a dream" speech from Martin Luther King jr. -
The bombing of a church in Birmingham, Alabama was a tragedy that left 4 black children dead. People around the world mourned for these children and their families. -
The Civil Rights Act was a huge step into the right direction as it would outlaw any discrimination of race, color, religion, gender, or national origin, It also required equal access to public places and employment, As well as the right to vote. -
Bloody Sunday was a march of 600 that would've spanned from Selma to Montgomery. It was all going well until state and local lawmen attacked them with billy clubs and tear gas which drove them back into Selma -
This was an act that would outlaw discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states which included requiring literacy tests to vote. -
A landmark civil rights case that determined that the ban of interracial marriage violates the Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment.