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Keys v. Carolina Coach
Sarah Keys was being told to give up her seat on a state-to-state charter bus because she was black and the other person was white. She refused to give up her seat on the bus because she thought everyone should be equal and not segregated just because someone else's skin color is different. not until 1955 did the court rule in Keys's favor in the case ruling that the Interstate Commerce Act forbids segregation. -
Emmett Till’s Murder- August 28, 1955
Emmett Till was murdered on August 28, 1955. He was a fourteen-year-old boy at the time when he was murdered. Till was accused of flirting and touching the store worker named Bryant. Several nights after the encounter between Bryant and Till, Bryant's husband and his half-brother went out to find Till and beat him and mutilated him before finally shooting him in the head. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
This was a civil rights protest in Montgomery Alabama. This protest was conducted by African Americans protesting the seating arrangements on the city buses. The African Americans protested and refused to ride the city buses to Montgomery Alabama from December 5, 1955, to December 20, 1956. After the protesting for a little over a year the protesting would eventually be successful. -
Little Rock Nine Crisis
On September 4, 1957, nine African American high school students wanted to make a statement and attend an all-white school to desegrigate schools. The nine African American students made their way through a crowd that was shouting at the students and even throwing things at them because they wanted to attend an all-white school and wanted to have equal learning skills. Schools could be desegregated at the time as long as they were being taught the same subjects no matter the school conditions. -
Civil rights act
This act made voting equal among all U.S. citizens. It empowered the Justice Department and federal government prosecutors and allowed the federal government to obtain court injections against interference with the right to vote. This act was made so every U.S. citizen could have equal rights to vote in the election. -
Greensboro Sit-In
This was a series of non-violent protests held by African Americans from February to July 1960. These protests were held at the Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro NC. The reason why the African Americans were protesting at the lunch counter was due to them being denied service there because they were black. These protests would finally later lead Woolworth's lunch counter to drop its racial segregation policy. -
March from Selma to Montgomery
Hundreds of people gathered in Selma, Alabama to march to the capital city of Montgomery. The people marched to ensure that African Americans could exercise their constitutional right to vote in the election and future elections. Due to this march, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was presented to Congress to give African Americans the right to vote in the elections.