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Northern Violence over School Integration
Tied to the 14th Amendment, the decision declared all laws establishing segregated schools to be unconstitutional -
Emmett Till’s Murder
Murdered for whistling at a white woman by her husband and his friends. They kidnapped him and brutally killed him. his death led to the American Civil Rights movement. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
The Montgomery Bus Boycott was 381 days of peaceful protest when ordinary men, women, and children sent the extraordinary message that second class citizenship was unacceptable -
Creation of the Montgomery Improvement Association
They attempted to get the law that protects black people to be responsive to white brutality and sexual violence against black people. -
Little Rock Nine Crisis
Governor Faubus ordered the Arkansas National Guard to surround Central High School to keep the nine African American students from entering the school -
Greensboro Sit-In-February 1, 1960
four Black college students spark a nationwide civil rights movement by refusing to leave a “whites-only” lunch counter at after they were denied service -
Albany Campaign
The Albany Campaign aimed to end all forms of racial segregation in the city, focusing initially on desegregating travel facilities -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. -
The assassination of Malcolm X-February 21, 1965
after his death, the Autobiography of Malcolm X began to popularize his ideas and inspired the Black Power movement -
Shirley Chisolm’s Presidential Campaign
Shirley Anita Chisholm of New York became the first African-American Congresswoman -
The assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
His assassination led to an outpouring of anger among Black Americans as well as a period of national mourning that helped speed the way for an equal housing bill that would be the last significant legislative achievement of the civil rights era. -
Swann vs. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools
the Supreme Court of the United States unanimously upheld busing programs that aimed to speed up the racial integration of public schools in the United States. -
Barbara jordans address at the democratic national convention
Texas Congresswoman Barbara Jordan delivered the keynote address at the Democratic National Convention. As Americans sensed a fracturing of American life in the 1970s, Jordan called for Americans to commit themselves to a “national community” and the “common good.” Jordan began by noting she was the first black woman to ever deliver a keynote address at a major party convention and that such a thing would have been almost impossible even a decade earlier. -
Hank Aaron’s Home Run Record
the first black candidate for a major-party nomination for President of the United States, and the first woman to run for the Democratic Party's nomination. -
Civil rights act
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin.