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14th amendment
Protects citizens rights and game garuntees equal protection -
Plessy v Ferguson
Separate but equal. -
Brown v Board of education
Supreme Court ruling that separating children in public schools on bias of race was unconstitutional. -
Integrating schools
Tied to the 14th amendment -
Emmett Till Murder
killed for accused of whistling at a white women. -
Vietnam war
War in Vietnam -
Little Rock Nine
African americans arrived at central high school at a white school -
Woolworths sit in
4 African American college students sat down at a lunch counter and request was refused. -
Freedom rider
rode interstate buses into segregated southern United States. -
Albany movement
Aimed to end all forms of racial segregation in the city. -
Birmingham
1000 black Americans peacefully protested racial segregation. -
MLK speech
I have a dream speech. -
March on Washington
to advocate for civil rights and economic rights of African Americans. -
16th street church bombing
KKK bombed 4 girls during sunday services. -
JFK assassination
president was killed. -
Civil rights act 1964
Prohibited discrimination in public places -
Malcom X assasination
was shot inside harlems Audubon Balleron by 3 men of the nation Islam. -
Selma march
People gathered to march to ensure that African Americans could vote. -
Bloody Sunday
Attacked hundreds of civil rights activists beginning a march from Selma. -
Loving v Virginia
Unanimous 9-0 decision in favor of the lovings -
Assasination of Martin L king JR
MLK shot at hotel -
Fair housing act
Prohibits discrimination in the sale/ financing. -
Sculpture of MLK
A bronze head and shoulders statue of MLK. -
Bus Boycott
Rosa Parks sat on the back of the bus. -
Million women march
Black women respond to the million march with a gathering of their own.