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Barbra Johns
A student walk out from Robert Russa Moton High School in Farmville, Virginia, is being held as Sixteen-year-old Barbara Johns leads the school walk out. This moment then became one of the 5 key cases that went into the brown VS Board of Education argument. -
Rosa Parks
A Montgomery bus arrests Rosa Parks for refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger. She believed that she did not need to get up because of her race even though that was against the law. Her name is very well known and she was one of the key factors to some of the civil rights movement and success. -
Jo Ann Robinson
After the following of Rosa Parks arrest on December 1st she
jumped into action and distributed flyers of her own creation all around town for a one day boycott buses on December 5th. This boycott became a huge success and ended up continuing for longer than one day. -
12 students attend the first integrated school
12 students, now named the Clinton 12, attended their first day of school at Clinton High School, being the first Africans Americans go to an integrated school in the south. The 12 students were both male and female and created a huge moment in history. -
Dorothy Height
She Organized “ Wednesdays in Mississippi '' a program that brought black and white women from the north and the south to create understanding for each other. She was also named president of the National Council of Negro Women in 1957. -
Ruby Bridges
William Frantz Elementary in New Orleans, Louisiana was an all white school in the south for a very long time, but then six year old Ruby becomes the first black student to attend and she makes national news. -
Addie Mae Collins, Denise McNair, Carole Robertson, Cynthia Wesley,
These four girls were attending Sunday school at 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, when the church was bombed. All four girls died, this was the third bombing in the last 11 days. -
Fannie Lou Hamer
Frannie ran as a member of the Mississippi freedom democratic party for congress. Which caught national attention and wide controversy.
