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Brown vs. the Board of Education
When the US Supreme Court declared state laws, establishing separate public schools for white and blacks. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Sparked by the arrest of Rosa Parks. This was a 13 month long protest that ended with the US Supreme Court ruling that segregation on public buses is unconstotutional. -
Little Rock Nine
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Sit Ins
Four African American College students walked up to a whites-only lunch counter and asked for coffee. When they were refused, they sat and waited patiently to be served. -
Freedom Rides
When civil rights activists rode interstate buses into the segregated southern USA to challenge the nonenforcement of US Supreme Court's enforcement. -
Betty Friedan's "The Feminine Mystique"
Famous book that convinced middle-class women during the 1960s that their personal identity as housewives and mothers had not provided them with full and meaningful lives. -
Birmingham Protest
A movement organized in early 1963 by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) to bring attention to the integration efforts of African Americans in Birmingham, Alabama. -
Equal Pay Act of 1963
A USA federal law that aimed at abolishing wage disparity based on sex. -
March on Washington
An interracial march by 250 thousand blacks and whites. They were protesting segregation and job discrimination against black in the nation. Also known as the March for Freedom. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. -
Freedom Summers
Was a volunteer campaign in the United States launched in June 1964 to attempt to register as many African-American voters as possible in Mississippi -
March to Selma
civil rights demonstrators led by Martin Luther King Jr. marched into Montgomery, Alabama. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
This was signed into Law by President Lyndon Johnson. It aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local barriers that prevented African Americans from using their right to vote. -
National Organization of Women (NOW)
Was first founded to help gain women's rights, and equality with men. Today, NOW is still working to make sure womens rights remain. -
Black Panthers
A group of blacks that practiced self-defense against the US government. They fought to establish socialism through community bassed programs -
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Race Riots of 1967 and 1968
When two racial groups (whites and blacks) breakout into figting over something related to one group's civil rights. Link text -
Black Power Movement
A political movement to achieve civil rights for the black community -
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Women's Liberation Movement
When feminist thinking emerged in the USA and other developing countries. The women came to stand up to these thoughts. Link text -
Equal Rights Amendment
an amendment proposed to the US Constitution saying that civil rights may not be denied on the basisi of one's sex. -
Title IX
Title IX states that no person in the USA shall, on basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.
