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This case was trying to end segregated schools.
Ended segregation in schools -
Emmett was killed since he flirted with a white woman.
It shows how racist they were -
Protesting against segregation in the Transit system.
It was a foundational event in the civil rights movement -
A group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School.
Allowed them to go to a white school -
Non violent protest.
Led to the F. W. Woolworth Company department store chain removing its policy of racial segregation -
Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses.
Which ruled that segregated public buses were unconstitutional. -
Martin Luther King Jr. wrote a letter in Birmingham Jail
Letter that addresses racial segregation and all the injustices to the black American society. -
March on Washington for jobs and freedom.
Largest gathering for civil rights at the time -
A white supremacist terrorist bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church.
Led to a turning point in the civil rights movement -
Outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin.
Outlawed discrimination -
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.
It gave African Americans more rights and freedoms -
Lewis and SCLC's Hosea Williams led the Selma to Montgomery March for voting rights.
Marching for voting rights -
The Act sought to secure the right to vote for racial minorities throughout the country.
Prohibited racial discrimination in voting -
A White and mixed African American ad Native American ancestry got arrested for interracial marriage.
Court ruled that laws banning interracial marriage violate the 14th amendment equal protection clause
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