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Till was kidnapped August 28, 1955. He was beaten, shot in the head, and thrown into the Tallahatchie River, and he was still killed because he was accused of offending a white woman, Carolyn Bryant, in a manner that violated the rigid, racist social codes -
was a white supremacist terrorist attack that (KKK) planted at least 15 sticks of dynamite beneath the steps of the church, a prominent center for civil rights organizing -
Supreme Court decision unanimous 9-0 vote that banned segregation in the public schools -
Rosa Parks’ refusal to give up her bus seat on December 1, 1955, sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott, a 381-day mass protest that became a foundational event of the American Civil Rights Movement -
The Little Rock Nine were a group of nine African American students who, in 1957, became the first to integrate the all-white Little Rock Central High School in Arkansas. Their enrollment followed the landmark 1954 Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education -
The Greensboro Woolworth's sit-ins were a pivotal series of nonviolent protests that catalyzed a nationwide youth-led movement against racial segregation in the United States -
The Freedom Rides of 1961 were a high-stakes campaign of nonviolent direct action aimed at forcing the U.S. government to enforce Supreme Court rulings that declared segregated interstate travel unconstitutional. Organized by the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) and later joined by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the rides involved interracial groups of activists traveling together on buses through the Deep South -
landmark text of the American civil rights movement. King penned the letter while in solitary confinement following his arrest for participating in nonviolent protests against segregation in Birmingham. It serves as a direct response to "A Call for Unity, -
It was a historic political rally held on August 28, 1963, that became a defining moment of the American Civil Rights Movement. An estimated 250,000 people gathered at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., to advocate for the civil and economic rights of Black Americans -
The 24th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified on January 23, 1964, abolished the use of poll taxes as a requirement for voting in federal elections -
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is the most extensive civil rights legislation passed since Reconstruction, fundamentally dismantling the legal framework of Jim Crow segregation. Signed on July 2, 1964, it banned discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin in major sectors of American life. -
The Selma to Montgomery March was a sequence of three major civil rights protests in 1965 that directly led to the passage of the Voting Rights Act. The campaign aimed to end systemic voter disenfranchisement in Alabama, where only roughly 2% of eligible Black citizens were registered to vote -
is a landmark U.S. federal statute that prohibits racial discrimination in voting. Signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson on August 6, 1965, it is widely considered one of the most effective pieces of civil rights legislation in American history. -
The civil rights decision in which the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled that laws prohibiting interracial marriage were unconstitutional. The ruling struck down Virginia's Racial Integrity Act of 1924 and ended all race-based legal restrictions on marriage in the United States -
at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. Dr. King, a prominent leader of the civil rights movement, was shot by a sniper while standing on the second-floor balcony outside
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