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The Supreme Court ruled that separating children in public schools on the basis of race was unconstitutional. -
Roy Bryant, and J.W. Milam, kidnapped and brutally murdered Till, dumping his body in the Tallahatchie River. -
Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. After the United States Supreme Court ruled that racial segregation on city buses was unconstitutional. -
A group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School. Students were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school by the Governor of Arkansas. -
Young African American students staged a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, NC, and refused to leave after being denied service. -
A series of political protests against segregation by blacks and whites who rode buses together through the American South. -
Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested and sent to jail because he and others were protesting the treatment of blacks in Birmingham, Alabama. -
To protest racial discrimination and encouraged the passage of civil rights legislation. -
The violent blast ripped through the wall, killing four African-American girls on the other side and injuring more than 20 inside the church. -
The U.S ratified the 24th Amendment to the Constitution, prohibiting any poll tax in elections for federal officials. -
Prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin. -
They marched to ensure that African Americans could exercise their constitutional right to vote. -
It outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War, including literacy tests as a prerequisite to voting. -
The Court held that the Virginia law violated the Fourteenth Amendment because of the law's clear purpose to create a race-based restriction.