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Brown vs Board of education
Oliver brown american minister called the board of education after a all-wight school wouldn't in-role his colored daughter. The class action lawsuit filed by brown and nearly twenty others. ended in the u.s. court ruling favor of the bored of education. -
Emette till murder
On August 24 till, along with some friends went to nearby money a deeply segregated town in the middle of Mississippi Delta where the young kids whistled and made advance toward a white woman . several day's after Till was kidnapped from his uncles. Three days later his body was found floating in the Tallahassee River severely beaten and shot to the head. -
Montgomery buss boycott
Local authorities in Montgomery, Alabama, arrested Rosa parks , A black seamstress when she refused to give her seat up to a white seat on the bus on December 1, 1955 embers of the city's black community formed the Montgomery improvement associated on December 4 1955, and launched a community wide boycott to compel the system integration. -
civil rights act of 1957
On September 9, 1957, president dwelt D. Eisenhower signed the civil rights act of 1957. originally proposed by attorney General Herbert brown-ell. -
Atlanta temple booming
October 12, 1958 fifty sticks of dynamite blew up in a entrance way at a Hebrew Benevolent congregation , more commonly known as,"The Temple." the incident was the nations most recent in a string of bombings associated with the civil Rights movement. -
New Orleans school integration
The school board of education finally put in place a plan to integration of two New Orleans schools, both located in the impoverished ninth ward, on grade every year unless you fail. -
Albany movement
Residence of Albany, Georgia, launched the movement captured national attention one month later when martin luther king jr, joined the protest Despite kings involvement the movement failed to secure concessions from local officials and was consequently deemed unsuccessful bt many observers. -
Ole Miss Integration
A black air force vet attempting to integrate the all-white school. despite the presence of more than 120 federal marshals who were on hand to protect Meredith from harm after night the crowed turned violent, when the smoke cleared, two civilians were dead and many were reported injured. -
JFK assassination
On November 22, 1963 president John F. Kennedy was assassinated while traveling through Dallas, Texas, shortly after the shooting lee Harvey Oswald was apprehended and charged threatened to slow the growing momentum of the civil rights movement. -
Dr. kings assassination
On April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated on the second floor of his room at Lorraine ,motel in mam face Tennessee. as news of kings death riots spreed up in mask per aids in African american neighborhoods.