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Brown v. Board of Education
The U.S Supreme Court ruled with no opposition that racial segregation in public school violated the 14th amendment. -
Murder of Emmett Till
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Rosa Parks and the Bus Boycott
Rosa couldn’t give up her seat. -
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
The SCLC was an organization linked to the black churches. 60 black ministers were pivotal in organizing Civil Right activism. Martin Luther King Jr was elected president. They focused its non violent strategy on its citizenship, schools and efforts on desegregate individuals cities. It played the key roles on March of Washington in 1963 and the Selma voting rights campaign and March on Montgomery in 1965. -
Little Rock 9
The students were prevented to enter racial segregation in the school by Orval Faubus