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Chief Justice Earl Warren wrote a unanimous decision that segregation in public schools was unconstitutional. -
Someone accused him of whistling at a White woman, then he was kidnapped, beaten, and shot in the head. -
Rosa Parks was arrested for not giving up her seat to a white man. Dr Martain Luther King was the leader of the boycotts of city buses. -
Black students who integrated an all-white school in 1957. -
A protest where 4 Black college students sat at a lunch counter at the FW Woolworth. -
Civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated Southern United States -
A famous letter written by Martin Luther King Jr while in jail. -
A march was to advocate for the civil and economic rights of African Americans. -
A bombing that killed 4 African American girls on one side of the building and injured more inside the church. all because of a protest. -
Eliminated the Poll tax. -
a landmark law that outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. -
a landmark federal law signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson to combat racial discrimination in voting, which it achieved by outlawing discriminatory practices like literacy tests, and providing federal oversight for voter registration in areas with a history of discrimination -
Refers to the violent attack on civil rights marchers on March 7, 1965, as they crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, during their march to demand voting rights. -
a landmark 1967 Supreme Court case that declared state laws banning interracial marriage unconstitutional.