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Brown vs Board of Education
Brown was going up against the board of education after they refused his daughter from a all white school -
Murder of Emmett Till
Emmett Till murder -
Rosa Parks and bus Boycott
Rosa Parks refused to sit at the back of the bus and Montgomery refused to pick up black people -
Martin Luther King murder
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Little Rock Nine
9 colored students enrolled in Little Rock Central high school who were prevented from entering by Orval Faubus. -
Civil rights act
Allowed federal persecution of anyone who tried to stop someone from voting -
Greensborough Sit'in
Young African Americans refused to leave after being denied service -
James Meredith, University of Mississippi
Racial Segregationists rioted and fought federal and state forces to prevent the first colored person from attending university -
March on Washington
The march on Washington was protest with 250'000 African Americans supporting, and the famous i have a dream speech -
Birmingham riots
Riots in one of the most racist city's with multiple bombings earning it the name Bombingham -
Mississippi Civil Rights Workers' Murders
3 activist were abducted and murdered by the KKK -
Civil Rights Act
The act prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin
