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The Martinsville 7
7 Black men accused of raping a white woman. Sentenced to death by all white all male suries. There had been no death sentence for rape by a white man. -
Southern Blacks Boycotted a Bus.
This was the first challenged to the segregated secratary system. -
Ruling in supreme court
The supreme court rules that segregation in public school was unconstutional and that was the start of desegregation. -
Rosa parks takes a stand.
Rosa parks refused to get up from her seat for a white man on a bus. -
The little rock 9
9 black students are blocked from entering an all white school. -
Martin Luther King Jailing
Martin luther king is put in jail during anti-segregation protest in birmingham. Wrote letter from brimingham jail. -
I have a dream
200,000 people join the march of washington were they listen to his I have a dream speech. -
Young girls are killed.
4 young girls are killed by a bomb thrown into 16th street baptist church. -
Civil right act.
President Johnson signs the civil right act of 1964. Prohibits discrimination of all kinds based of race, color, religion. Also gives federal goverment the powers to enforce desegragation. -
Bye bye.
Malcom X was shot to death. -
Voting right passed
congress passed a voting right act of 1965 making it easier for southern blacks to vote -
MLK dies.
Martin Luther King shot as he stands on the balcony outside his hotel room. -
The Greensboro 4.
4 students sat woolworth lunch counter and sat there until they were served. -
James M.
James Meredith becomes the first black student to enroll at the university if mississippi.
