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plessy V. Ferguson
This enacted the law "Seperate but equal" which ment seperate railway for the blacks and Seperate nice railway for the whites and Everything was seperate in public places also. -
Brown V. Board of education
Little girl who wanted to go to the nice school that was right across from her house but couldnt because of segregation so she goes to supreme court and wins and every school should be public to anyone and no segregated schools no more. -
Murder of Emmett Hill
A 14 year old african American acussed of looking and flirting with a white woman at a grocery store and he was kidnapped and lynched later that night. -
Rosa parks and the Montgomery bus boycott
Rosa parks refused To give up her seat on the Montgomery bus and after this the Montgomery bus boycott took place which ment african americans stopped riding the busses in Montgomery and the bus companys started losing money. -
SCLC
It was created when sixty black ministers met in Atlanta to continue to make more events such as boycotts and more. -
Little Rock Nine and Central Highschool
Nine black students enrolled in this school and even though all schools were no longer segreagated the govenor called in national guards to block the doors of the school from the nine black students until president Eisenhower sent in federal troops to escort the nine children in to class safely. -
Greensboro sit-in
Four college students sat in a restraunt on the white side and asked to be served there politely and were beat even if they werent fighting basck they were still tooking to jail. -
Freedom Riders
Civil rights riders who rode buses on the interstaste blacks and whites on the bus through the southern United States and were put on fire and beat after they got off ther bus. -
March on Washington
In washington where 250,000 people attended And marched with Martin Luther King as he Gave his "I have a dream" speech for equality for the blacks and the whites. -
student nonviolent coordinating committee and freedom summer
This was to motivate and expand black voters starting with Mississipi since it had the least amount of black voters. -
Civil rights act
This was signed to protect the rights of the African americans such as work discrimination, school interegation and public places like that. -
assassaniation of Malolm X
After his house getting firebombed a week late at a rally in New york when Malcom X was giving his speech he was killed by Nation of Islam members. -
Voting rights act
President Lyndon Johnson Aimed to overcome prevented voting rights for African Americans. -
Assassination of MLK
James earl ray a confirmed racist and small town criminal been plotting to kill MLK and he shot and killed him in Memphis.
