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prohibits both Congress and the states from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax or other types of tax. -
Segregation in public schools became illegal. Beginning of the civil rights movement Dec 9, 1952 – May 17, 1954 -
Emmett Till was murdered for flirting with a white woman. His body was found in the Tallahatchie River. The two men arrested were found not guilty. -
Rosa Parks was arrested for not giving up her seat to a white person which lead to a boycott where no colored folks would purchase bus tickets. -
a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. -
A group went to the diner in Greensboro and did a sit-in until served as a form of protest against segregation. -
A group of civil rights activists took bus trips around and broke segregation laws -
. King's letter, responded to several criticisms made by the "A Call for Unity" -
The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, also known as simply the March on Washington or The Great March on Washington, was a big step into African American freedom -
The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing was a white supremacist terrorist bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham -
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is a landmark civil rights and labor law in the United States that outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, -
State troopers and county possemen attacked the unarmed marchers with billy clubs and tear gas after they passed over the county line, and the event became known as Bloody Sunday. -
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is a landmark piece of federal legislation in the United States that prohibits racial discrimination in voting -
a landmark civil rights decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that laws banning interracial marriage