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Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that U.S. state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional, even if the segregated schools are otherwise equal in quality. -
Emmett Till was an African American Teenager who was dared by his cousins to speak to a white lady and later on that night a family member of that white lady murdered Emmett and his body was found in Tallahatchie River. -
Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama . -
The Little Rock Nine was a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. Their enrollment was followed by the Little Rock Crisis, in which the students were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school by Orval Faubus, the Governor of Arkansas. -
Young African American students staged a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, and refused to leave after being denied service. -
Civil Rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated Southern United States in 1961 -
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. -
A response to eight white Alabama clergymen who criticized King and worried the civil rights campaign would cause violence. -
The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, also known as simply the March on Washington or The Great March on Washington. The purpose of the march was to advocate for the civil and economic rights of African Americans -
The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing was a white supremacist terrorist bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, on Sunday. -
Prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin. -
Some 600 civil rights marchers headed east out of Selma on U.S. Route 80. They got only as far as the Edmund Pettus Bridge six blocks away, where state and local lawmen attacked them with billy clubs and tear gas and drove them back into Selma. State troopers and county possemen attacked the unarmed marchers with billy clubs and tear gas after they passed over the county line -
Removed barriers to black enfranchisement in the South, banning poll taxes, literacy tests, and other measures that effectively prevented African Americans from voting. -
Court ruled that laws banning interracial marriage violate the Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.