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Brown vs. Board of Education
The Supreme Court ruled that separating children in public schools on the basis of race was unconstitutional. -
Emmett Till Murder
Emmett Till was a 14-year-old black boy from Chicago was brutally lynched in Mississippi after being accused of whistling at a white woman. -
Rosa Parks & the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white passenger on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Her arrest sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott. -
The Little Rock Nine and Integration
The Little Rock Nine were a group of nine Black students who integrated Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas.Their enrollment was met with violent resistance prompting President Dwight D. to send federal troops to enforce integration protect the students. -
Freedom Rides
It was a series of protests in 1961 where interracial groups of civil rights activists rode buses into the segregated South to challenge non-enforcement of Supreme Court rulings that banned segregation in interstate travel. -
Greensboro Woolworth's Sit-ins
4 black college students from NC AT sat at a "whites-only" lunch counter in a Woolworth’s store politely asked to be served. After being denied service, they refused to leave, sparking a wave of nonviolent sit-ins across the country. -
MLK’s Letter From Birmingham Jail
The letter expressed the moral urgency of the civil rights movement and became a foundational text for the struggle for justice equality. -
March on Washington
Over 250,000 people gathered at the Lincoln Memorial to demand civil economic rights for African Americans. This was where Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his iconic “I Have a Dream” speech. -
Birmingham Baptist Church Bombing
White supremacists bombed the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, killing 4 young Black girls and injuring many others. The church was a key civil rights meeting place. -
24th Amendment
The 24th Amendment banned the use of poll taxes in federal elections. -
“Bloody Sunday”/Selma to Montgomery March
Peaceful civil rights marchers were brutally attacked by law enforcement while crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, during a march to Montgomery to demand voting rights. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
It was a landmark federal law that banned racial discrimination in voting was signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson. -
Loving v. Virginia
it was a landmark in 1967 that the Supreme Court case struck down laws banning interracial marriage. The case was brought by Richard Mildred Loving a mixed-race couple who had been arrested for marrying in Virginia. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
This act banned discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin was signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson it ended segregation in public places prohibited employment discrimination.