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Board of Education of Topeka, was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme court in which the Court ruled that U.S. state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools are unconstituational. -
Emmett Til was a 14 year old African American who got beaten and murdered for talking "fresh" to a white woman. -
Rosa Parks was an African American who refused to give up her seat for a white person. She got in trouble and was put in jail, after this many african americans decided to boycott the buses. -
Little Rock Nine was nine african american students that enrolled in an all white high school in little rock. -
The Greensboro sit-ins were a series of nonviolent protests in February to July 1960, primarily in the Woolworth store. -
Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated Southern United States in 1961 and subsequent years to challenge the non-enforcement of the United States Supreme Court decisions Morgan v. Virginia (1946) -
The march on Washington was a huge protest in August 1963. The event aimed to draw attention to contuining challenges and inequalities faced by african americans. -
The Birmingham church bombing occurred on September 15, 1963, when a bomb exploded before Sunday morning services at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama—a church with a predominantly Black congregation that also served as a meeting place for civil rights leaders. -
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was the nation's premier civil rights legislation. The Act outlawed discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin, required equal access to public places and employment, and enforced desegregation of schools and the right to vote. -
It outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War, including literacy tests as a prerequisite to voting. This “act to enforce the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution” was signed into law 95 years after the amendment was ratified. -
The first march took place on March 7, 1965, organized locally by Bevel, Amelia Boynton, and others. State troopers and county possemen attacked the unarmed marchers with billy clubs and tear gas after they passed over the county line, and the event became known as Bloody Sunday. -
Virginia, legal case, decided on June 12, 1967, in which the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously (9–0) struck down state antimiscegenation statutes in Virginia as unconstitutional under the equal protection and due process clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment.