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Civil Rights
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Brown vs the board of education
Overturned separate but equal in the public school system. -
Emmet Till
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
Rosa Parks had refused to give up her seat leading to her getting arrested therefore getting the outcome of declaring bus segregation unconstitutional -
SNCC
People started to see the efficiency of nonviolent protests -
Albany Movement
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Death of Ronald Stokes
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. -
MLK march on washington
Martin Luther kings led 250,000 people across the washington mall to protest against racial injustices. -
civil rights act of 1964
24 amendment Black people could no longer be denied certain things because of race. -
Headstart
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. -
Malcolm X Assassination
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March on Selma
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 -
Black Panthers
The Black Panther Party was a Marxist-Leninist and black power political organization founded by college students -
Olympics black power salute
Tommie Smith and John Carlos each raised a black gloved fist during the anthem “the star spangled banner”. -
Memphis sanitation strike
1,300 black sanitation workers in Memphis began a strike to demand better working conditions. -
Assassanation of MLK
People had a psychological feeling to follow in martin luther kings teachings. -
Dodge revolutionary movement
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. -
Fair housing law
prevented housing discrimination based on race