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Wanted to end legal segregation in the education system asserting that segregated schools could never be equal and mandating the desegregation of schools across America. -
Emmett was still killed because he was flirting with a white woman at the store and the cashier told her husband and brother and they killed him. -
In 1957 nine ordinary teenagers walked out of their homes and stepped up to the front lines in the battle for civil rights for all Americans. The media coined the name Little Rock Nine to identify the first African American students to desegregate and attend classes at Little Rock Central High School. -
4 students sat down at the lunch counter in downtown greensboro where the official policy was to refuse service to anyone but white people. -
In the spring of 1961 a small interracial band of Freedom Rider set out to challenge discriminatory state laws and local customs that required a separation of the races on buses and in bus station facilities like waiting areas lunch counters and restrooms. -
In Letter from a Birmingham Jail Martin Luther King Jr lays out an argument about why nonviolent protest against segregation was both immediately needed and the most effective option to correct the social ills faced by millions of African Americans. -
On August 28 1963 a quarter of a million people rallied in Washington D.C. for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom to demand an end to segregation fair wages and economic justice voting rights education and long overdue civil rights protections. -
A 1963 bombing of a Birmingham church by the KKK and takes the lives of four African American girls. -
prohibited a poll tax for voters in federal elections -
outlawed discrimination based on race color religion sex or national origin. -
600 marchers led by activists including John Lewis and Hosea Williams aimed to march from Selma to Montgomery to demand voting rights -
a landmark U.S. federal statute that prohibits racial discrimination in voting -
struck down state laws banning interracial marriage in the United States -
he was shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis Tennessee for being himself -
Rosa rejected a bus drivers orders by moving to the back she did not want to move to the back of the bus so she went to jail.
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