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Plessy V Ferguson
landmark United States Supreme court decision upholding the constitutionality of state law requiring racial segregation in public facilities under the doctrine of "separate but equal" -
Emmett Till Murder
teenager who was lynched in Mississippi at the age 14 after reportedly flirting with a white women -
Brown V Board
a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
A seminal event in the Civil Rights Movement was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery Alabama -
Sit In's
Four students from North Carolina A & T sit down at a "whties-only" Woolworth's lunch counter and asked to be served. -
Freedom Riders
Civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated deep south United States in 1961. -
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Freedom Summer
Volunteer campaign in the United States launched to attempt register as many African-American voters as possible in Mississippi which had historically excluded most blacks from voting. -
Civil Rights Act
landmark piece of civil rights legislation in the United States that outlawed discrimination base on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin -
Race Riots
Violent public disorder that turned into a civil disturbance in Detroit, Michigan
