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Overturned separate but equal in the public school system. -
The brutal murder of Emmet Till. Three men beat him and tourtured him and eventually shot him and
dumped his body into Tallahatchie -
Rosa Parks had refused to give up her seat leading to her getting arrested therefore getting the outcome of
declaring bus segregation unconstitutional -
On September 3, 1957, nine Black students, known as the Little Rock Nine, arrived at Central High School to begin classes but were instead met by the Arkansas National Guard (on order of Governor Orval Faubus) and a screaming, threatening mob. The Little Rock Nine tried again a couple of weeks later and made it inside, but had to be removed for their safety when violence ensued -
This map shows segregation in 1960's around the US -
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was the principal channel of student commitment in the United States to the civil rights movement during the 1960s. -
Seven Black and six white activists–mounted a Greyhound bus in Washington, D.C., embarking on a bus tour of the American south to protest segregated bus terminals. They were testing the 1960 decision by the Supreme Court in Boynton v. Virginia that declared the segregation of interstate transportation facilities unconstitutional. -
The Albany Movement aimed to end all forms of racial segregation in the city -
An officer mistook Ronald and members of islam removing clothes from a car and the conflict escalated
quickly to a police raid into the mosque, leaving a total of 7 shot and 1 killed and 1 paralyzed. -
Martin Luther kings led 250,000 people across the washington mall to protest against racial injustices. -
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin -
The Head Start program began amidst the mass social upheaval and an organized civil rights movement
that was determined to ensure economic equality and an end to discrimination for all Americans, especially
African Americans. -
While preparing to address the Organization of Afro-American Unity at the Audubon Ballroom in the neighborhood of Washington Heights, Malcolm X was shot multiple times and killed -
Civil rights movement in Alabama took an especially violent turn as 600 peaceful demonstrators participated in the Selma to Montgomery march to protest the killing of Black civil rights activist Jimmie Lee Jackson by a white police officer and to encourage legislation to enforce the 15th amendment. -
The Selma to Montgomery march was part of a series of civil rights protests that occurred in 1965 in
Alabama, a Southern state with deeply entrenched racist policies. In March of that year, in an effort to
register Black voters in the South, protesters marching the 54-mile route from Selma to the state capital of
Montgomery were confronted with deadly violence from local authorities and white vigilante groups -
Compares white and african american race from 1966-2019 -
The Black Panther Party was a Marxist-Leninist and black power political organization founded by college
students -
1,300 black sanitation workers in Memphis began a strike to demand better working conditions. -
People had a psychological feeling to follow in martin luther kings teachings -
prevented housing discrimination based on race -
On May 2, 1968 in Hamtramck, Michigan, 4,000 black and white workers at the main Dodge plant of the
Chrysler Corporation engaged in a wildcat strike to protest these conditions and a speedup in the production
lines. -
Tommie Smith and John Carlos each raised a black gloved fist during the anthem “the star spangled
banner”.