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Catherine Dowless: Civil Rights Timeline

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    Brown vs. Board of Education

    This was a landmark Supreme Court case. The justices ruled that racial segregation of children in public schools was unconstitutional.
  • Emmett Till Murder

    Emmett Till Murder

    He was murdered for flirting with a white woman 4 days earlier.
  • Rosa Parks & the Montgomery Bus Boycott

    Rosa Parks & the Montgomery Bus Boycott

    Rosa Parks was arrested and fined for refusing to yield her bus seat to a white man.
  • Little Rock Nine

    Little Rock Nine

    This was a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School.
  • Greensboro Woolworth's Sit-ins

    Greensboro Woolworth's Sit-ins

    This was when black students staged a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth's lunch corner.
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    Freedom Rides

    This was when civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated Southern United States.
  • March on Washington

    March on Washington

    This was when about 250,000 people gathered to march as a non-violent protest.
  • Birmingham Baptist Church Bombing

    Birmingham Baptist Church Bombing

    The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing was a white supremacist terrorist bombing, targeting people of color.
  • Civil Rights Act

    Civil Rights Act

    This was a landmark civil rights and labor law in the United States that outlaws discrimination based on origin, race, color, gender, and religion.
  • Voting Rights Act

    Voting Rights Act

    This is a form that prohibits racial discrimination in voting in the United States.
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    “Bloody Sunday”/Selma to Montgomery March

    Local officials and state troopers attacked the unarmed marchers with billy clubs and tear gas after they passed over the county line.
  • Loving v. Virginia

    Loving v. Virginia

    The Supreme Court held that the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits governments from discriminating against individuals because of their race.