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Court case against the Supreme court suing them because of schooling segregation -
Two men accused of kidnapping and torturing a 14 year old African-American boy were given the verdict of not guilty by an all-white jury. The two men even admitted to the crime later. -
Rosa Parks refused to sit at the back of the bus, where the black people were supposed to sit. Her actions inspired others to follow her. -
A group of 9 African-American students were permitted into an all white school from which they were initially refused entry into because of racial segregation. -
The first ever civil rights act to be made in American history. -
A civil rights protest that occurred in a Woolworth's when a young African-American boy refused to leave after being refused service. -
James Meredith filed a law suit against Ole Miss for racial discrimination. Eventually, he was permitted into the University of Mississippi through government intervention. -
More than 200, 000 people took part on the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom to pressure the government to initiate a strong civil rights bill. -
A series of activist protests that were met with lash back from the police over a couple of months. -
The murders of Chaney, Goodman and Schwerner, also known as the Mississippi Burning Murders, refers to three activists who were abducted and murdered in Mississippi, in June 1964. -
An act proposed in the United States that prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin of any person.