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Court Case that banned segregation in the public schools -
14 year old boy who was kidnapped and murdered after he was accused of whistling at white woman. -
Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a city bus. -
The Little Rock Nine were nine African American students who became the first to desegregate Little Rock Central High School in Arkansas. -
began on February 1 at the F.W. Woolworth lunch counter in North Carolina. -
defends the strategy of nonviolent direct action to combat segregation. -
a massive, peaceful civil rights protest held on August 28, 1963, in Washington, D.C. Over 250,000 people gathered at the Lincoln Memorial to advocate for civil rights legislation, economic justice, voting rights, and integration. -
On September 15, 1963, Ku Klux Klan members bombed the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, killing four African American girls -
The 24th Amendment, makes it illegal to charge a tax or any fees as a condition for voting in federal elections. It abolished poll taxes, which were used to prevent low-income, predominantly Black citizens from voting, thereby ensuring fairer access to federal elections. -
ended legal segregation (Jim Crow laws) and outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. -
To eliminate legal, state-level obstacles such as literacy tests, poll taxes, and intimidation that prevented African Americans and other minorities from exercising their right to vote. -
roughly 600 civil rights marchers walking from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, to demand voting rights were brutally attacked by state troopers at the Edmund Pettus Bridge -
unanimously ruled 9-0 that state bans on interracial marriage were unconstitutional -
Martin Luther King was shot dead while standing on a balcony outside his second-floor room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.
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