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Plessey vs. Ferguson
Policy of Seperate but Equal. Plessy was born 1/8 black but was still segregated. -
Brown vs. Board of Education
Brown wanted his daughter to go to an all white school for better education. -
Rosa Parks arrested
Rosa parks did not give her seat up to a white man on a bus. She was arrested. -
Period: to
Montgomery Bus Boycott
lasted more than a year. People stopped ridin the bus until there was desegregation of busses. -
Governor
Governor of Arkansas calls national guard to keep black students from entering their public schools. -
Sit in at Woolworth's
Students sat in at the Woolworths lunch counter because they felt it was wrong that they couldn't eat there too. Woolworth's used to be an all white food place. -
Freedom Riders
The Freedom Riders bus burned. To defy the Jim Crow law. -
Letter
Letter from Burmingham Jail from MLK -
March
The March on Washington for rights, jobs and freedom -
A New President
Lyndon B. Johnson becomes president -
Assasination
John F. Kennedy was assasinated. -
Cviil Rights
The Civil rigths bill passed -
Voting
The voting rights bill passed and affirmative action was taken. -
MLK
Martin Luther King was assasinated -
Bussing
Froced bussing to take people farther away to make schools integrated