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Plessy v. Feguson
Homer Plessy was a black man, who was jailed for sitting in a white train car. Plessy and his lawyer insisted that the Seperate Car Act infringed the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendment. The saying "seperate but equal," was made becasue of this case.
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Brown v. Board of Education
Oliver Brown sued a Kansas school for not allowing his daughter admission into a school near his house. The court ruled that segregating public schools was in violation of the Fouteenth Amendment. This Supreme Court case is considereed one of the most important ones in the 20th century.
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Murder of Emmett Till
Emmett Till was a fourteen year old boy who lived Mississippi. He supposedly whistled at a white girl named Carolyn Bryant. Her husband, and half-brother kidnap Emmett, and beat him until death.
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Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Rosa Parks, an African American woman, sat down on the white section of the bus. A white man got on the bus, and tried to sit where Rosa Parks was sitting but, she refused to give up her seat, she was then arrested and fined. In response to this, people followed in her footsteps, and boycoted the Montgomery buses.
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Founding of Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) & Martin Luther King
A group of sixty black ministers came together in Georgia to attempt to eliminate legalized segregation. Martin Luther King Jr. led this non-violent protest. This group struggled at the beginning, but then they had a success in Alabama.
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Little Rock Nine and Central High School
Nine African American students enrolled in a white high school three years after the Brown v.Board of Education court case. They were denied the right to enter the school by the Governor of Arkansas. The president however, sent the National Guard to the school to force the school to allow the students entry.
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Greensboro Sit-In
A sit-in is when a group occupy a place as a form of protest. Four young black students put together sit-ins across Greensboro. This way of protest spread to 13 states in America, and it was very effective.
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Freedom Ride/Freedom Riders
CORE volunteers took bus trips throughout the highly segregated south. The first week it was not that bad, but the second week of protest the volunteers were beaten. Some buses were burned, and even the white people on the buses were severely attacked.
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March on Washington
The March on Washington was the biggest public protest in the US. 250,000 people attented this protest and marched on Washington for "Freedom and Jobs." A. Philip Randolph initiated the march on Washington.
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Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and Freedom Summer
Freedom Summer was a non-violent event formed by the SNCC. This movement was intended to take attention to voting discremenation in Missisippi. Freedom Summer was a widely known campaign in the South, it registered blacks to vote.
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Civil Rights Act
The Civil Rights Act was passed by President Lyndon Johnson after the fact that John. F Kennedy proposed it. This Act prohibited discremination in public places. This was a very important Act because it finally placed everyone equal.
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Assassanation of Malcolm X
Malcolm X was very smart, but he dropped out of school, and became a thief. He was then sent to prison where he educated himself and converted to the Nation of Islam. His way of protesting was the exact opposite of MLK, Malcolm x believed that he had to do everything necessary to get his protest across, even violence.
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Voting Rights Act
The Voting Rights Act eliminated voter discremination. In the constitution it says that everyone has the right to vote, and this Act enforces that idea. This Act is one of the most important acts, because everyone was granted the rigvht to vote.
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Assassination of MLK
Martin Luther King Jr. is a very famous protester, known for is non-violent protests. When he was killed there major shock amoung many people. Many protesters started getting very angry, which helped speed up the Civil Rights movement.
http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/martin-luther-king-jr-assassination
