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the law suet decided that segregation in public school was unconstitutional. It also dismantled the separate but equal doctrine.
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Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white woman. she was arrested. This prompted civil rights leaders to create the Montgomery bus boycott.
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People refused to ride the busses in Montgomery to protest segregation on public transportation. The boycott lasted more than a year and resulted in the supreme court making Montgomery integrate their bus system.
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Nine Black students enrolled at an high school that before the brown v board of Ed case was an all white school. the governor called the national guard to prevent these nine students from entering the school. later president Eisenhower sent federal troops to escort the nine into the school.
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black people would sit at white only lunch counters and refuse to move. this would block sales from the restaurant. they were heavily harassed and arrested.
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Their goal was to desegregate the interstate transport. They were meet with violence on their route such and a fire bomb thrown into the bus. Eventually the national guard was called out to escort the bus.
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President JFK was shot in Texas in a motorcade. the person who shot him was arrested but before they could give him a trial he was shot.
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know as the most segregated city in the nation Birmingham was where the SCLC and MLK focused their efforts. they used nonviolent tactics as well as use children to prove their point. the police were extremely violent toward the protestor using fire hoses, dogs, and night sticks.
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a group of more than 20 thousand protestors lead a peaceful protest through Washington DC. it was on this march MLF had his "I had a dream" speech under the Lincoln Memorial. This march was important because they went through the capital city putting more pressure on the government.
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This act ended all segregation in public places. all the protests and boycotts finally resulted in this piece of legestation. however the south would continue to fight against it.
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the goal of this was to get black to resister to vote so they could have an impact in government. They did this having white volunteers people go with black people to the polling places to help prevent people scaring them off with threats.
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a march from selma to Montgomery in an effort to encourage back voter registration. the march was meet with extream violence from the police and anti protestors.
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signed by LBJ this act banned the practices used by southern states to prevent black people from voting. the 15 amendment was supposed to do this but southern states found their way around this by requiring literary tests and other absurd means of discrimination.
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a significant leader of the civil rights moment Marten Luther King was assassinated on April 4th. This caused riots and outrage all across the nation. his death also prompted the equal housing bill to be speed up by LBJ.