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NAACP combine 5case and take to Supreme Court, 9-0 to over-tan the separate but squad doctrine. However many of these black students will never go to school with white students. -
Accused of whistling at white woman. 3 days later Roy Bryant and others kidnapped, eye detached, eat cut off, bar wire wrapped around his neck, weighted down by 75 pound cotton gin fan, thrown into water. -
Rosa is arrested for failing to move seats on the bus. She is find $10. Mlk Jr and church send out flyers to boycott the bus system on dec 5th the buses ran empty for 381 days. Supreme Court ruled bus had to let black ride. -
A meeting of Black church pastors to coordinate events for Black people. MLK was elected the 1st president. This group used a nonviolent strategy . Group also registered blacks to vote . -
A student wanted to go to the white school. The Governor of Arkansas call out the National Guard to stop them. President Eisenhower calls in 1,200 military men to escort these students from home to class, 1959 all schools fully intergrated. -
60 to wod worth’s buy items. Then go sit at the lunch counter. They are refused service and told to leave, but the stayed. Day after day they came back and did the something. The amount of students grew over the days to 1,000. -
A diverse group of volunteers from 39 states most were college students. Arrived in Anniston, Alabama Dlocked by KKK. Types slashed , fire bombed, buses burned and beating, town after town. -
250,000 people marched in Washington D.C. It was peaceful and respectful protest for their jobs and freedom. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his “ I have a dream speech. MLK was the last speaker of the day.” -
Enabled the federal government to prevent racial discrimination and segregation based on race, color, religion or national origin in private businesses or public facilities. -
Civil Rights leader who was part of the Nation of Islam. He wanted black people to believe in themselves and start their own businesses. He was shot 21 times. Thomas Hagan convicted of killing. -
Black marches wanted to walk 54 miles to Montgomery to register to vote. At the Edmond Bridge troopers brutally beat them. -
Enabling the right to vote of African Americans any discrimination in voting. Now a federal matter not state. -
Striking sanitation workers protest in Memphis. When back to the motel. Shot lower right side of his face, with Remington Rifle. James Earl Ray sentenced to 99 years. His death marks the end of the Civil Rights movement.