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Rosa Parks joined the NAACP in December of 1943. She was elected secretary of the association.
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In 1946, the NAACP won the Morgan v Virginia case where the Supreme Court banned states from having segregated facilities on busses and trains that crossed state borders.
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NAACP won its landmark legal case - Brown v the Board of Education. The Supreme Court declared that schools could be "separate and equal". The NAACP found it easy to prove that children at white-only schools in the south had nearly $38 spent on each one of them per year. For children at black-only schools, the figure was just over $13. The Supreme Court deemed that this was not "equal" and declared schools that were segregated unconstitutional.
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Emmett Till was murdered at the age of 14, for flirting with a white woman. At their trial, Till's murderers were aquitted, sparking The Civil Rights Movement.
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Rosa Parks is arrested for refusing her seat to a white person, on a racially segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama.
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Martin Luther King Jr was elected as president of the Montgomery Improvement Assosiation, making him the official spokesman for the boycott.
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The Montgomery Bu Boycott gets their victory, with the Supreme Court ruling bus segregation unconstitutional.
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King forms the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to fight segregation and achieve civil rights. On May 17, he speaks to a crowd of 15,000 in Washington, D.C.
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The March on Washington is the largest civil rights demonstration in history, with nearly 250,000 people in attendance. It is at this March that King makes famous the 'I Have a Dream' speech.
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In 1964, the Supreme Court ended the eight year campaign by Alabama officials to ban the activities of the NAACP. In this year, Congress passed the Civil Rights Act.
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Martin Luther King Jr. receives the Nobel Peace Prize. He is the youngest to receive this award, at 35.
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Founded in Oakland by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale. Origionally called for the protection of black neighbourhoods from black brutality.
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6- We want completely free health care for all black and oppressed people.
7- We want an immediate end to police brutality and murder of black people, other people of colour, all oppressed people inside the United States.
8- We want an immediate end to all wars of aggression. -
The Black Panther Party introduced what was called the ten point program.
1- We want freedom. We want the power do determine the destiny of our black and oppressed communities.
2- We want full employment for our people.
3-We want an end to the robbery by the capitalists of our black and oppressed communities.
4- We want decent housing, fit for the shelter of human beings.
5- We want decent education for our people that exposes the true nature of decadent American society. -
9- We want freedom for all black and oppressed people now held in U.S federal, state, county, city and military prisons and jails. We want trials by a jury of peers for all persons charged with so-called crimes under the laws of this country.
10- We want land, bread, housing, education, clothing, justice, peace and peoples' community control of modern technology.' -
Martin Luther King Jr was fatally shot while standing on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.
