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March on Washington
Who was involved: (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, Phillip Randolph , Bayard Rustin)
Where did this take place: Washington D.C
What happened: Voting rights desegregation and fain employment -
Brown VS Board of Education
Who was involved: Oliver Brown - Father of Linda Brown - NAACP - Lawyer
Where did this take place: Kansas - also South Carolina, Virginia, Delaware District of Columbia
What happened: Over turn Plessy V Ferguson 9-0 -
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Who was involved: Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
Where did this take place: Atlanta, Georgia
What happened: Coordinate the action of local protest groups throughout the South. -
Little Rock 9
Who was involved: Ernest Green, Elizabeth Eckford, Jefferson Thomus, Terrence Roberts Carlotta walls, Minnuean Braun, Gloria Ray, Thelma Mothershed, Melba Pattill o.
Where did this take place: Central High school In little Rock, Arkansas
What happened: President Dwight D. Eisenhower sending federal troops to protect the "Little Rock wine". -
Greensboro Sit Ins
Who was involved: Four African American college students (Ezell Blair Jr, David Richmond , Franklin MoCam, Joseph McNeil
Where did this take place: F.W Woolworth store in downtown Greensboro
What happened: Purchased small Items and then sat down at the "whites only" lunch counter -
Ruby Bridges
Who was involved: Barbara Henry, Federal Mars hals, Protesters and parents
Where did this take place: William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans, Louisiana
What happened: Became first African American Student to integrate the Student after being selected under Federal desegregation order. -
Freedom Riders
Who was involved: (James Farmer, John Lewis, Diane Nash)
Where did this take place: Alabama, Mississippi
What happened: They were all arrested in Jackson in the bus depot for violating segregation statues and were taken to jail -
Civil Rights Act
Who was involved: President Lyndon B. Johnson, Martin Luther King Jr, John F. Kennedy, Congress
Where did this take place: United States Congress
What happened: The Civil Rights Act outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex or national origin ended segregation. -
Assassination of Malcom X
Who was involved: Nation of Islam( Talmadge Hayer, Norman 3x Butler , Thomas,
15x Johnson.
Where did this take place: Harlem, New York City at the Audubon Ballroom
What happened: Man fired a sawed -off shot gun at Malcolm y hitting him in the chest two other men then fired hand guns, striked him multiple times pronounced dead shortly after at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital -
Selma to Montgomery Marches ( Bloody Sunday)
Who was involved: Martin Luther King Jr, John Lewis, Coretta Scott king, Other Civil Rights Organ. President Lyndon B Johnson, state troops and Lau enforcement.
Where did this take place: Selma, Alabama,
What happened: Troops and Horsemen armed with clubs assaulted the Protestors Who then flee back to selma -
Voting Rights Act
Who was involved: President Lyndon B, Civil Right Leader, congress, opponents).
Where did this take place: U.S Capital In Washington D.C).
What happened: Was response to decades to systemic discrimination that prevented African American -
Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr
Who was involved: Martin Luther Ving, Jumes Eurl Ray).
Where did this take place: Lorraine Motel in Memphis Tennessee.
What happened: Martin Luther King Jr was shot dead white standing on a balcony outside his second floor room in the Lorraine Motel in Memphis Tennessee. -
Murder of Emmett Till
Who was involved: Roy Bryant and J.W. Milan
Where did this take place: Money, Mississippi, In the Mississippi Delta region.
What happened: Got Beaten Shot in the head, and his body was thrown Into the Tallahatchie River. -
Rosa Parks and Bus Boycott
Who was involved: African American Community in Montgomery
Where did this take place: Montgomery, Alabama
What happened: She boarded a segregated Montgomery city bus after work and Sat in the "colored section!
Got Her arrested point for African community