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-Plessy v. ferguson was the court case that alloud sepparat4e vs equal facilities.
-What happened in topeka Kansas was when the court declared a law that sepparating black and white students was unconstitutional.
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this is was located in Belzoni, Mississippi.
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Murdered for organizing black voters in Brookhavens, Mississippi
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he was killed in Money, Mississippi
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Slain by nightridders opposed to school improvments in Mayflower, Texas
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-Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white man on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama
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-Presednt Lyndon Johnson was responsible for passing this act or law.
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-Governor Orval Faubus ordered the Arkansas National Guard to prevent African American students from enrolling at Central High School. Central High was an all white school.
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State Governor called for Arkansas National Guard to keep the nine students out of the school
Eisenhower removed the Arkansas National Guard
“President Dwight D. Eisenhower sent in federal troops to escort the ‘Little Rock Nine’ into the school, and they started their first full day of classes on September 25.”
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-what they were doing was they were testing the deseggregation laws
-The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) sponsored most of the subsequent Freedom Rides, but some were also organized by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).
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n late September 1962, after a legal battle, an African-American man named James Meredith attempted to enroll at the University of Mississippi. Chaos briefly broke out on the Ole Miss campus, with riots ending in two dead, hundreds wounded and many others arrested, after the Kennedy administration called out some 31,000 National Guardsmen and other federal forces to enforce order
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was an African-American civil rights activist whose murder drew national attention.
After attempting to segregate the University of Mississippi Law School in 1954, he became the NAACP field secretary in Mississippi. Evers was subjected to threats as the most visible civil rights leader in the state, and he was shot to death in June 1963. Although accused killer Byron De La Beckwith escaped conviction, the unearthing of new evidence decades later resulted in Beckwith’s retrial and imprisonment. -
On August 28, 1963, more than 200,000 Americans gathered in Washington, D.C., for a political rally known as the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Organized by a number of civil rights and religious groups, the event was designed to shed light on the political and social challenges African Americans continued to face across the country. The march, which became a key moment in the growing struggle for civil rights in the United States, culminated in Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Drea
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The Civil Rights Act of 1964, which ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin.
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In the name of African-American voting rights, Martin Luther King, Jr. from Selma, AL. led a march to the state capitol at Montgomery. That night, a group of segregationists beat James Reeb to death.
Troopers blocked the march
King didn’t trust them and whether they would cause problems
King turned marchers around to avoid conflict
March 15, Johnson went on television to show support for Selma marchers by saying he would introduce the passage of a new voting rights bill
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He argued 32 cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, successfully challenging racial segregation, most notably in public education.
He won 29 of these cases, including a groundbreaking victory in 1954’s Brown v. Board of Education
He was the great-grandson of slaves
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Dr. King was there for mistreated African-American sanitation workers
He was staying at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.
The day before, April 3, he gave his last sermon and heThe Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Memphis, TN.
The assassination of the famous Dr. King
said, “We’ve got some difficult days ahead. But it really doesn’t matter with me now, because I’ve been to the mountaintop…And He’s allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I’ve looked over, and I’ve seen the Promised -
he assassination of the famous Dr. King
Dr. King was there for mistreated African-American sanitation workers
He was staying at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.
The day before, April 3, he gave his last sermon and he said, “We’ve got some difficult days ahead. But it really doesn’t matter with me now, because I’ve been to the mountaintop…And He’s allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I’ve looked over, and I’ve seen the Promised Land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to k
