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In the brown v BOE case Oliver Brown filed a lawsuit after his daughter was not allowed to attend a school in there Topeka Kansas neighborhood. The 1954 case of Brown v. Board of Education ended with a Supreme Court decision that helped lead to the desegregation of schools throughout America. -
Lead by Martin Luther King Jr, Blacks refused to ride the bus in order to get the attention of the supreme court to change the Alabama law requiring segregation on buses. Losing 75 percent of their riders turned out to be very detrimental to the finances of the public bus companies and twelve and a half months later, the boycott was finally over. New laws went into place that ended segregation on public buses. -
he Little Rock Nine were a group of nine black students who enrolled at formerly all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in September 1957. Their attendance at the school was a test of Brown v. Board of Education, a landmark 1954 Supreme Court ruling that declared segregation in public schools unconstitutional. -
Student nonviolent coordinating committee started the sit in movement .They would sit in at a white only lunch counter to receive the same service as the white people. People supported and joined the group. The people to start it were Joseph McNeil, Ezell Blair Jr, David Richmond and Franklin McCain. -
The Freedom Riders were made up of multiple groups of black and white college students organized by CORE and the SNCC who rode integrated buses from Washington DC through the South. Their actions were done in order to protest the South’s non-enforcement of Supreme Court rulings that ruled segregated buses as unconstitutional. While doing this they were beaten up by gangs with baseball bats, chains, and lead pipes -
James Meredith, an African American man, attempted to enroll at the all-white University of Mississippi in 1962. Chaos soon 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 -
The March on Washington was a massive protest march that occurred in August 1963, when some 250,000 people gathered in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. Also known as the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, the event aimed to draw attention to continuing challenges and inequalities faced by African Americans a century after emancipation. It was also the occasion of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s now-iconic “I Have A Dream” speech. -
Even though the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed, The African Americans still had no voting rights. The purpose of the Selma March is to protest against voting rights, but during the march demonstrators were beaten by police forces because they were ignoring their commands -
The Black Panthers, also known as the Black Panther Party, was a political organization founded in 1966 by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale to challenge police brutality against the African American community. Dressed in black berets and black leather jackets, the Black Panthers organized armed citizen patrols of Oakland and other U.S. cities. At its peak in 1968, the Black Panther Party had roughly 2,000 members. Life for African Americans in the urban areas was overcrowded and dirty. -
Malcolm X was an African American leader in the civil rights movement, minister and supporter of Black nationalism. He urged his fellow Black Americans to protect themselves against white aggression “by any means necessary,” a stance that often put him at odds with the nonviolent teachings of Martin Luther King, Jr.
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