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The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee organized protests all across the country. -
A group of men decided to sit at a lunch counter at a Woolworth's (black people were not permitted to do so) and eventually a crowd accumulated to participate-- Brought momentum to the movement raised awareness. -
Wanted to force the supreme court to enforce the federal law that desegregated interstate travel. Gained international attention after facing violence from the KKK. -
Kennedy sends troops to the university and is met with a very politically incorrect space from the headmaster of the school -
Created and organized by Bayard Rustin, the March on Washington was a group of 250,000 people that showed up at the Washington Monument and demanded racial equality. -
WWII veteran and participate in the Normandy Invasion. NAACP's first field secretary in the South. Integrated Ole Miss. Assassinated in 1963 by a KKK member. -
Dr. MLK Jr. writes "Letter From a Birmingham Jail". He was arrested 29 times in his life. This letter is quickly published all across the country and soon adopted into mandatory reading in high schools. -
KKK members tossed a bomb through a church window from their moving car and killed 4 girls that were in the restroom. -
President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964-- Protecting against discrimination (gender, race, etc.) -
Ex burglar, drug dealer, and numbers runner, Malcolm X was a natural born leader who supported separation of the races. Goes on a pilgrimage to Mecca and shifts his previously states opinions. Challenged both white supremacy black supremacy. Assassinated in 1965 while giving a speech at 39 years old. -
LBJ signs and gets congress to pass the Voting Rights Act in reaction to the Selma Marches. -
600 civil rights protesters march from Selma, Alabama to the Montgomery (the capital) in protest of Black voter suppression. Dr. MLK Jr. launches a second march-- also for voting rights. Local police brutally attack them. -
Huey Newton and Bobby Seale founded The Black Panthers in Oakland, CA. They acted as a sort of police for their community and helped with daycare, food, medical programs, and homelessness, before "keeping out the whites" turned violent (shooting at police, etc.). -
James Meredith (a SNCC member) who had integrated the University of Mississippi sets out on a protest walk across Mississippi and is shot by a KKK member (and survives). Stokely Carmicheal and Dr. MLK Jr. take over to finish the march. Carmichael is arrested and beaten and leaves the SNCC-- Coins the term "Black Power". -
Doctor Martin Luther King Junior was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968, an event that sent shock waves reverberating around the world. A Baptist minister and founder of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), King had led the civil rights movement since the mid 1950's. King believed in rights for all, not just black people.