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Double victory campaign
The Double Victory campaign was used by the Pittsburg Courier and it was created to compare the treatment of African Americans in America to the holocaust, and the treatment the Jews endured in Germany. It stood for freedoms from enemies without and within. -
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Brown V. Board Education
The Supreme court case that took place in 1954, was a monuments court case in terms of civil rights. This court case took place after a girl was not allowed entry into a school based on her race. The ruling was that segregation of schools was unconstitutional, and this started the desegregation of schools. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
This civil rights protest took place in 1955 and spanned all the way into 1956. This protest is thought to be the first large-scale demonstration against segregation in the United States. It started after Rosa Parks was arrested for not giving up her seat on a bus so a white man could sit there. It was the start of desegregating public transportation. -
Little Rock Nine
Group of nine elementary students who were enrolled at an all-white high school in 1957. It was one of the first effects of the ruling of Brown v. Board of Education and was met with backlash at first, however, ultimately they succeeded in integrating the school. -
Freedom Riders
Freedom Rides, or bus trips that traveled through the American South in 1961 were meant to protest segregated buses and bus terminals. These buses used white-only terminals to protest, and were established by the Congress of racial Equality. -
Birmingham Campaign
The Birmingham Campaign was a series of peaceful demonstrations and protests that were all met with violent force and police brutality and jail time for the individuals involved. In 1963 however, they reached some success when they were granted the desegregation of local restraunt. -
March on Washington
A protest that occurred at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC, was huge with over 250,000 people gathered to march. The goal was that it was to receive national attention, and it was where Martin Luher Kings I Have A Dream speech was said. -
Cvil Rights Act
A piece of US legislation that was put in place by President Johnson to end segregation on the basis of race. This allowed for voting rights, government support, unions, and overall desegregation to become available to everyone. -
Watts Riots
Series of riots that broke out in 1965 in the neighborhood area of Watts in Los Angeles. These riots had a death toll of thirty-four injuring more than a thousand people. It was started by an incident against Marquette and Ronald Frye. -
Selma March and Voting Rights Act
March that started in Selma Alabama and marched to Montgomery. It was led by MLK Jr. in hopes of getting more lack Americans across the state and across the country to vote. The march then lead to the later publication of the voting rights act which eliminated all Jim-crow voting rules and laws. -
Black Power Movement and the Black Panther Party
Black power was the concept that black Americans should not seek integration into a white-dominated society, but rather be creating their own economic and political power. They believe that this should be accomplished through any means necessary. The black panthers supported the idea of black power through violence when nessaary. and so did Malcolm X. -
Assassination of MLK and The Subsequent Riots
Martin Luther King Junior was shot dead while standing on the balcony of his motel in Tennessee. The shot was fired by James Earl Ray. Riots bean springing up across the country, as word of his death spread. He was one of the most prominent civil rights leaders of the time.