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The Montgomery bus boycott was a political and social protest campaign. African-Americans insisted on doing it as long as possible. This boycott brought along Martin Luther King Jr. and Ralph Albernathy,
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At the time Afriican-Americans and whites were segerated. Rosa Parks was already a civil rights activist. African-Americans were forced to sit in the front and white people get to sit in the front. The thing about that was that if all of the white section was filled up then a white person was elidgible to take a black persons seat.
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The governor didnt allow intergation. THe president forced him to let african-americans to be welcomed in the schools there. The group of kids trying to get in the school was named Little Rock Nine.
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Four African-Americans sat at lunch counters in Greensbro, North Carolina. If they sat at the white counter then they couldn't get served. The African-Americans had to get beat and broken and they couldn't fight back.
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This was when white and african-american civil rights activists started freedom rides. They would protest segregation at bus terminals. White people were frustrated with this so they burnt the bus and beat the passengers inside the bus. (mostly african-americans).
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It was book talkig about how a quarter of the United States of Amercia is in poverty.
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It was a peaceful march. The african-americans got beat, got attacked with water hoses, and got attacked by attack dogs.
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The letter he wrote was to other christian churches. He told them that all of the black-white segregation isn't christianity.
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The march was led by 250,000 people. The march was the biggest civil rights movement in history. This was also the place that MLK gave his "I have a dream" speech.
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He had a dream that blacks and whites we would be equal,. He had a dream that people would judge his children by character; not skin color.
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JFK started civil rights act. Supposibly killed by Lee Harvey Oswald.
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He was the vice president to JFK. He becane president on the Air Force 1. Might of been apart of JFK's assassination.
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This was also called desegregation busing.
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This amendment ended poll taxes. This also end other discriminate actions.
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This gave equal rights to race, religion, and or sex. This was signed to law by Lyndon B. Johnson.
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He was strongly for the blacks. He wanted to violently move to peace. The cause pf death was assassination.
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This gave african-amercians the right to vote. Even though this act was in place Texas and other staes prevented blacks from voting.
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The riot was in Los Angeles. There were 34 deaths during the riot and most of the people were african-american.
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The day before he got killed he said im probably going to die during a speech the day before he was killed. He died on his hotel balcony. He was shot through his cheek.