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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
was a 14-year-old African American youth, who was abducted and lynched in Mississippi in 1955 after being accused of offending a white woman -
Rosa Parks & the Montgomery Bus Boycott
The boycott led to a successful court case declaring Montgomery's bus segregation laws unconstitutional and ultimately desegregated the city's buses. -
Greensboro Woolworth's Sit-ins
young African American students staged a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, and refused to leave after being denied service -
The Little Rock Nine and Integration
nine African American students who first integrated Central High School in Little Rock -
Freedom Rides
a series of bus trips organized by civil rights activists in 1961 to challenge the segregation of interstate bus travel in the Southern United States -
“Bloody Sunday”/Selma to Montgomery March
refers to the violent attack on civil rights marchers in Selma, Alabama, on March 7, 1965, during the Selma to Montgomery marches -
MLK’s Letter From Birmingham Jail
defends his nonviolent protests and the need for direct action in fighting segregation, responding to criticisms from white clergymen who urged patience -
March on Washington
a massive demonstration held on August 28, 1963, in Washington, D.C., where approximately 250,000 people gathered at the Lincoln Memorial -
Birmingham Baptist Church Bombing
As a bomb exploded under the steps of the church, they sought safety under the pews and shielded each other from falling debris -
24th Amendment
Constitutional Amendments – Amendment 24 – “Elimination of Poll Taxes” Amendment Twenty-four to the Constitution was ratified on January 23, 1964 -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, and national origin -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
The Voting Rights Act was enacted on August 6, 1965, and it prohibited states from imposing qualifications or practices to deny the right to vote on account of race; permitted direct federal intervention in the electoral process in certain places -
Loving v. Virginia
struck down all state laws banning interracial marriage, ruling them unconstitutional under the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause