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Brown v board
This was a major court case that said that segregation was unconstitutional and that it should be desegregated. -
Montgomery bus boycott
The Montgomery bus boycott happened between 1955 and 1956 after Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat the African-American community Montgomery then did a Boycott that was led by MLK. -
The Little Rock nine
Nine Black students who attended the school faced hardships and discrimination and had to be led by federal troops -
First lunch counter sit in
Four African-American college students sat at a whites only lunch counter This was known as sit ins a way to protest. -
Freedom rides
Groups of African-American and white civil rights people. Rode buses to the south to protest any illegal segregation. -
March on Washington
Many people gathered at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC to call for “freedom”. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his iconic. I have a dream speech. -
Civil rights act of 1964
This was a law that made it illegal to discriminate people for their race, color and religion. -
Voting rights of act 1965
This was a law that protected black Americans right to vote by banning unfair voting practices.