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Brown v. Board of Education
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka was a landmark 1954 Supreme Court case in which the justices ruled unanimously that racial segregation of children in public schools was unconstitutional. Brown v. Board of Education was one of the cornerstones of the civil rights movement, and helped establish the precedent that “separate-but-equal” education and other services were not, in fact, equal at all. -
Murder of Emmett Till
On August 28, 1955, while visiting family in Money, Mississippi, 14 year old Emmett Till, an African American from Chicago, he allegedly whistled at white woman so Her husband Roy Bryant and his brother J.W Milan tortured Emmett and murdered him. -
Rosa Parks and the bus Boycott
Rosa Parks an African American woman, was arrested and fined for refusing to yield her bus seat to a white man. -
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
SCLC was an organization linked to the black churches. Regarded churches as piuitoal organizing spaces for civil rights activism.