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The American Civil Rights Movement

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    Booker T. Washington

    The 'Accomodationist'

  • 13th Amendment

    Abolition of Slavery
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    Reconstruction Amendments

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    W.E.B Du Bois

    'The Talented Tenth'

  • Fourteenth Amendment

    Equal protection under the law

  • Fifteenth Amendment

    Prohibited federal and state governments denying the vote on 'race, color or previous coniditon of servitude.'
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    Marcus Garvey

    The father of Black Nationalism
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    NAACP Growth

    50,556 --> 450,000 members
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    March on Washington Movement

    Led by A Philip Randolph

  • Race riots in Detroit

    17 African Amerians shot dead by police; 0 whites

  • Brown vs. Board of Education

    "Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal"

  • Lynching of Emmett Till

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    Montgomery Bus Boycott

  • Formation of SCLC

  • Little Rock

    Autumn 1957: Orval Faubus (governor) opposed integration of LR's central high school using National Guard --> white mob --> Eisenhower intervened

  • Student sit in

    in Greensboro, NC

  • Formation of SNCC

  • Freedom Rides

  • Albany Campaign

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    Birmingham Campaign

  • Children's Crusade

    2-7 May

  • March on Washington

  • Freedom Vote

  • Freedom Summer

  • Freedom Summer Murders

  • The Civil Rights Act

  • Asssasination of Malcolm X

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    Selma to Montgomery Marches

  • Voting Rights Act

  • MLK's 'A Time to Break Silence' Speech

  • Spring Mobilisation, NY

  • Memphis Campaign March

  • MLK "I've been to the mountaintop" speech

  • Assassination of Martin Luther King

  • PPC disintegrated