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Who was involved: Oliver Brown- Father of Linda Brown - NAACP X Lawyer Where did this take place: Kansas- also South Carolina, Virginia, Delaware District of Columbia. What Happened: Overturn Plessy v. Ferguson 9-0 -
Who was Involved: Roy Bryant and J.W Milan Where did this take place: Money , Mississippi, in the Mississippi Delta region What Happened- Got Beaten Shot in the head, and his body was thrown into the Tallahatchie River. -
Who was involved: African American Community in Montgomery. Where did this take place: Montgomery, Alabama What happened: Boared a segregated Montgomery city, sat in the “colored section” Got her arrested point for African Community. -
Who was involved: Southern Christian leadership conference (SCLC) Where did this take place: Atlanta, Georgia What Happened: Coordinated the action of local protest groups throughout the south. -
Who was involved: Ernest Green, Elizabeth Eckford, Jefferson Thomas, Terrence Robert’s, Carlotta Walls, Minnijen Brown, Gloria Ray, Thelma Mothershed, Melba Portillo. Where did this take place: Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas What Happened: President Dwlight D. Eisenhower sending federal troops to protect the “Little Rock nine” were forced to go home. -
Who was involved: Four African American college Student (Ezell Blair jr, David Richmond, Franklin McCain, Joseph McNeil. Where did this take place: FW Woolworth store in downtown Greensboro What happened: Purchased small items and then sat down at the “Whites only” lunch counter. -
Who was involved: Barbara Henry, Federal Marshals, Protesters and Parents. Where did this take place: William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans What happened: Became First African American student to integrate the student after being selected under federal desegregation order. -
Who was involved: (James Farmer, John Lewis, Diana Nash) Where did this take place: Alabama, Mississippi What happened: They were all arrested in Jackson in the bus depot for molating segregation statutes and were taken to jail. -
Who was involved: Dr. Martin Luther King Kr, Phillip Randolph, Bayard Rustin) Where did this take place: Washington D.C What happened: Voting Rights desegregation and fair employment practices. -
Who was Involved: President Lyndon B. Johnson, Martin Luther King Jr, John F Kennedy, Congress Where did this take place: United States Congress What happened: The Civil Rights Act (1964) outlawed discrimination based on race color, religion sex or national origin ended segregation. Prohibited employees created equal Employment -
Who was involved: Nation of Islam (Talmadge Hayek, Normen 3x butler, Thomas 15x Johnson. Where did this take place: Harlem, New York City at the Audubon Ballroom What happened: Man fired a sawed-off shot gun at Malcolm hitting him in the chest two other men then fired handguns, striker him multiple times pronounced dead shorty after of Columbia Presbyterian Hospital. -
Who was involved: Martin Luther King Jr, John Lewis, Caretta Scott King, other civil Rights organizations President Lyndon B Johnson, State troops and law enforcement. Where did this take place: Selma Alabama What Happened: Troops and Horsemen armed with clubs assaulted the protesters who then fled back to Selma. -
Who was involved: President Lyndon B, Civil Rights Leader, Congress, opponents). Where did this take place: U.S Capital in Washington D.C). What happened: was response to decades of systemic discrimination that prevented African American. -
Who was involved: Martin Luther King, James Earl Ray). Where did this take place: Lorraine Motel in Memphis Tennessee. What happened: Martin Luther was shot dead while standing on a balcony outside his second floor room in Loraine motel in Memphis Tennessee.