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Student sit-in movement, contributes were: Marion Berry, John lewis, and Stokely Carmichael -
Black and white activists rode interstate buses through the segregated South to challenge non-enforcement of Supreme Court rulings against segregation in bus terminals -
Governor George Wallace physically tried to block two Black students, Vivian Malone and James Hood, from enrolling, leading President John F. Kennedy to federalize the National Guard to enforce federal court orders -
Bayard Rustin was a gay man, and because of the stigma attached to homosexuality, most Americans do not know who he was or what he accomplished. -
On June 12, 1963, civil rights leader Medgar Evers was assassinated, shot in the back in the driveway of his Jackson, Mississippi home as he returned from an NAACP meeting -
KKK members bombed a Baptist church and killed kids -
from his jail cell in Birmingham, Alabama, defending nonviolent protest against segregation and criticizing moderate white clergy who called his actions "unwise and untimely" -
Launched the first Selma march -
Lyndon B Johnson ended up passing the act after having to replace JFK -
He got assassinated after fighting for black equality -
peaceful civil rights marchers in Selma, Alabama, demanding voting rights for Black Americans, were brutally attacked by state troopers and local law enforcement on the Edmund Pettus Bridge -
was a landmark civil rights law that banned discriminatory voting practices like literacy tests and poll taxes, enabling federal oversight to ensure minority citizens, especially African Americans, could vote freely after decades of disenfranchisement -
On the second day of the march, a white sniper, later identified as Aubrey James Norvell, stepped out of a wooded area next to the road, shouted, "I only want Meredith", and shot Meredith three times with a 16-gauge shotgun loaded with birdshot shells -
In October 1966, Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale founded the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense in Oakland, California, to combat police brutality and systemic oppression, shifting focus from Southern nonviolence to armed community protection, outlining their revolutionary goals in a 10-Point Program demanding Black liberation -
Just after 6 p.m. on April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. is fatally shot while standing on the balcony outside his second-story room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. The civil rights leader was in Memphis to support a sanitation workers’ strike and was on his way to dinner when a bullet struck him in the jaw and severed his spinal cord.