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Brown V. Board of Education
Its known as one of the greatest supreme court decisions in the 20th century, held that the ratial segergation of children in public schools violated the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th amendment. ended federal tollerance of racial segergation. whites and blacks can now go to the same schools. They dont get to have seperate schools for them now. -
montgomery bus boycott
African Americans refused to ride city buses. in Montgomery, Alabama , to protest segergated seating. 4 days before This, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat for a white man on a montgomery bus. -
Little Rock Cetral Highschool Integrated
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The Sit ins Movement
African American college students would walk up to the whites only counters at the local Woolworths stores in North Carolina and asked for coffee. when they were refused serivce, they sat and waited patiently. Even though they were being threatened, they still sat quietly and waited to be served.sometimes they would get food thrown at them, and get beaten. when local police came to arrest the demonstraters, another line of students would take the empty seats. -
March on Washington
200,000 americans gathered in washington dc. for jobs and freedom. The event was created to get more attention on the political and social challenges African Americans contiued across the country. the highest poing im martin luther king jrs "I have a dream.." speech a spirited call for racial justice and equality. represented an affirmation of hope and of faith in capacity of blacks and whites to work together. -
civil rights act of 1964
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 ended segeration in public places and banned employment discrimination based on race, sex, color, religion or national origin. it was first proposed by president John F. Kennedy. congress passed an aditional legislation aimed at bringing equality to african americans, such as the Voting Rights Act of 1965. -
Selma to Montgomery March
both SCLCs protest strategy and SNCC'S organizing activities were responsible for major Alabama protests in 1965, which promoted president Lyndon B. Johnson to introduce new voting rights legislation. They planned a march from Salem to the state capitol in montgomery it ended really quick. moments after it started at the Pettus Bridge. police attacked the protesters. new accounts of "bloody sunday" brought hundreds of civil rights sympathizers to Salem.
