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Brown v. Board of Education
Brown v. Board of Education was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. -
Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Boycott
On December 1, 1955 Rosa Parks was taking the bus home from work in Montgomery, Alabama. She was already sitting down and was in the row closest to the front for black people. When the bus began to fill up, the driver told the people in Rosa's row to move back in order to make room for a white passenger. Rosa was tired of being treated like a second class person. She refused to move. Rosa was then arrested and fined $10. -
Sit-Ins
On Febuary 1 1960 four African American students sat down at the white section of the Woolworth lunch counter in Greensboro. After being denied service they asked the cashier why their money was good everywhere but the lunch counter. -
March on Washington
Between 200,000- 300,000 people demostrated in front of the Lincoln Memorial. This is were MLK gave his famous "I Have a Dream" speach. -
Birmingham Campain
The goal was to desegerate downtown Birmingham businesses. The campain was successful, but Martin Luther King was arrested. Four monthes later they bombed a church and killed four young girls. -
Civil Rights Act
The bill called for the banning of discrimination based on race and nullified local segeration. -
Black Power Movemnt
The black power movement was made public by The Black Panther Party. They followed the ideology of Malcomn X and they took a "by any means necessary" apporch towards inequality. The movement also believed that violence was necessary to obtain equality. -
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King Dead
In March 1968 Martin Luther King traveled to Memphis to support a sanatation workers strike. King was shot on April 4 1968 in his hotel room. The following days riots broke in more than 110 cities nationwide. -
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Greatest Being of all time was born. -
Rosa Parks
Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was an African-American Civil Rights activist, whom the United States Congress called "the first lady of civil rights" and "the mother of the freedom movement". -
Martin luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King, Jr. was an American Baptist minister, activist, humanitarian, and leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. -
Malcom X
Malcolm X, born Malcolm Little and also known as el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz, was an American Muslim minister and a human rights activist.
