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A young African American girl was denied admission to her neighborhood school in Topeka, Kansas because of her race. She had to travel town just to attend an all black school. With the help of NAACP, her parents sued the Topeka school board. -
With Martin Luther King Jr. as leader, the Supreme Court affirmed the decision of a special three-judge panel declaring Alabama’s laws requiring segregation on buses unconstitutional. This went to prove that even the smallest act of defiance can empower people to create a change, just like Rosa Parks refusal to give up a seat in the bus to a white man. -
In September 1957, the school board in Little Rock, Arkansas won a court order requiring that nine African American students be admitted to Central High, a school with 2,000 white students. The governor of Arkansas was known as a moderate on racial issues, but he was determined to win reelection and began to campaign as a defender of white supremacy. He ordered troops to prevent the nine students from entering the school. In addition, he federalized the National Guard. -
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee led the sit-in movement. Joseph McNeil, Ezell Blair Jr., David Richmond, and Franklin McCain. They were trying to do a sit-in at the whites-only lunch counter until they have gotten the same services as the whites. Later, more and more people supported this act and decided to join the original members of the committee. -
Many African American and white volunteers were asked to travel into the South to draw attention to refusal to integrate bus terminals. They were beaten up by a gang of young men who were armed with baseball bats, chains and lead pipes. -
James Meredith is an African American Air Force veteran.
President Kennedy dispatched 500 federal marshals to escort Meredith to the campus. -
Dr. King realized that Kennedy would have a very difficult time pushing his civil rights bill through Congress. Therefore, he searched for a way to lobby Congress and to build more support. As an alternative, Dr. King had received an idea from A. Philip Randolph to march on Washington. MLK gave his famous "I have a dream" speech. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed shortly after. -
He had lost patience with slow progress of civil rights and felt that African Americans needed to act more militantly and demanded equality, not wait for it to be given. After Malcom X broke with the Nation of Islam, he continued to criticize the organization. Because of this, organization members shot and killed him in February 1965. -
Even after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed, voting rights were far from secure. The act had focused on segregation and job discrimination, and it did little to address voting issues. The purpose of the Selma March was to protest against voting rights. In Selma March, many demonstrators were beaten up by police forces because they were ignoring their commands. The bill authorized the U.S. attorney general to send federal examiners to register qualified voters. -
Black Power political organization founded by college students. Their views of civil rights were that they believed that a revolution was necessary in the United States and they urged African Americans to arm themselves and prepare to force whites to grant them equal rights.
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