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Freedom riders
Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into segragated southern united states in 1961 and years after that to test the united states supreme court decisions. -
Letter from Birmingham jail
MLKJ wrote a letter from Birmingham jail stating that the battle for racial segregation should be fought solely in courts instead of on the streets. -
Voting rights act of 1965
The act made it where any history of voting practices could not implement any change effecting voting without first getting approval from the Department of justice. -
Arrest of Rosa Parks
Rosa parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white man on a bus in Montgomery Alabama. She did this noviolently and was made a rallying point for organizing the black community. -
King assassination
Martin Luther King was violently assassinated in Memphis Tenessee, by Jame Earl ray while giving a speech in his motel room balcony. There was a massive manhunt across america as authorities looked for him. when the police found him he was sentenced to 99 years in prison where he died at the age of 70.
