US History timeline William Dunkley

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  • Brown v. Board of Education

    U.S. Supreme Court struck down racially segregated schools as unconstitutional in its landmark Brown v. Board of Education ruling

  • Rosa Parks arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat

    1.She sat in the front of a segregated bus
    2.She was arrested

  • Civil Rights Act of 1957

    1. President Dwight D. Eisenhower 2.it secured African Americans the same rights we have

  • Events at Little Rock, Alabama

    1. 8 African Americans were attempting to enroll at Little Rock High School but were denied with force 2.The government sent 1,000 US troops to protect the children

  • medgar evers assassinated

    1. he was a African american that was a part of the civil rights activist and field secretary for the NAACP in Mississippi 2.he was murdered walking up to his house in the back of his head his kids witnessed his murder. community

  • the march on washington

    1.to stand for freedon and more jobs for the black commutiy
    2.it was martin luther king jr biggest speach

  • civil rights act of 1964

    1. To stand for the black right and stand for selma
    2. The police and the white people
    3. 3 people died

  • James Meredith enrolled at Ole Miss

    There was a riot that erupted when she enrolled
    2.The gov. Sent troops to protect her in/ on her way to the school

  • Thurgood marshall first blank supreme court justice

    1. making the us equal
    2. Because the case when to the supreme court

  • The assassination of martin luther king jr

    1. He got shot on his balcony of his room
    2. Because mlk jr. was make america great and getting rid of black not having any rights