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MLK worked with CORE throughout the 1950's and in to the 1960'. CORE memebers would give advice and support during the bus boycott's. -
If black residents bought a home in a white-neighbourhood then white residents would send packages of dynamite to their door. The whites would not get in trouble and made the nineteenth century dark.
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Ruled that U.S. state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional, even if the segregated schools are otherwise equal in quality. -
When Emmett got killed Emmett’s mom held many funerals and got people to be more active to stop the violence. -
The movement started when rosa parks refused to give up her seat,the black community began the protest for a month. Resulted in the Supreme Court ruling segregation on public buses unconstitutional. -
In 1953, the fair announced that African Americans could attend the fair on any day, but could only fully participate in the fair's enjoyments on Negro Achievement Day. Juanita Craft, NAACP Youth Council advisor for the Dallas branch, spearheaded a movement to end discrimination at the fair so that any person of any race could participate on any day they chose. -
Mansfield Criswell made a speech about how black people did not posses the same kind of sould before God that white people had. He suggested isolation and colored church. The Clergy’s of Dallas felt hurt and shocked, thought that religion has no place for discrimination.
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Became an integral part of the fight for equal opportunity in American education. -
An African-American civil rights organization based in Atlanta, Georgia. -
When Kennedy was elected (1960) it inspired a generation to accept responsibility for its government by taking political and social action. -
In the 1960s a group of black students in dallas, took part in a sit in civil rights movement by sitting at an all whites table. -
(Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee) were people who organized sit ins and took buses to the south where later buses were mandated to be desegregated and restaurant owners were given an option to go out of business or serve everyone -
Millions of people went to protest on the Lincon Memorial. On this day MLK gave his famous "I have a dream" speech. -
The year the great Civil Rights Act was passed, only 18 percent of whites claimed to have a friend who was black; today 86 percent say they do, while 87 percent of blacks assert they have white friends.
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Exercised the people constitutional rights to vote in elections -
In 1965 thousands of people had a marches in the US state of Alabama.Their march from Selma to Montgomery, the capital, was a success, leading to the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. -
While preparing a speech at the Organization of Afro-American Unity at the Audubon Ballroom in the neighborhood of Washington Heights, Malcolm X was shot multiple times and killed. -
George Floyd got murdered by policemen due to racism. This led to a lot of attention on social media. It was one of the events that provocked blm protests. -
Duante wright was killed in Brooklyn on April 11,2021 by a police officer. -
San Francisco supervisors have backed the idea of paying reparations to Black people. As a result people are protesting. March 15, 2023