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Brown v. Board of Education
One. It was Plessy v. Ferguson. Two. Linda Brown was denied admission admission to her neighborhood school in Topeka, Kansas. Three. The Supreme Court ruled that segregation in public schools was unconstitutional and violated the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment. -
George Lee killed
George Lee tried to vote, but was refused by the county sheriff. He reported it to the federal authorities and was allowed to vote, but started to receive death threats because of it. Later on, a mass rally for voter registration was held and George Lee was present. He told the audience if they vote,the Delta would one day have a black congressman. 2 weeks later he was found dead and officials reported it a car accident, but evidence showed it was a klan killing. -
Rosa Parks arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat.
One. Rosa Parks refused to get up from her bus seat for a white man. Two. She was took into custody by Montgomery police. -
Montgomery bus boycott
Rosa Parks was arrested after not giving her seat to a white man. After African Americans heard they decided to started a boycott against the bus system, after having enough of black segregation on buses. The boycott lasted 381 days. -
Civil Rights Act of 1957
One. president Eisenhower passed this act. Two. the act stated it was intended to protect the right of African Americans to vote. -
Events at Little Rock, Arkansas.
One. The school board in Little Rock, Arkansas won a court order to admit 9 African American students to Central High. Two. Hired the National Guard to protect the students. -
Outlaw on bus segregation
The boycott on bus segregation lasted so long it forced some bus companies to shut down. Eventually because of that, and African Americans actions, bus segregation was outlawed. -
Attack of the Freedom Riders
One. Teams of African Americans and whites traveled into the South to draw attention to the South's refusal to integrate bus terminals. Two. The CORE ( Congress of Racial Equality ) leader James Farmer helped. Three. African Americans and whites joined in. -
James Meredith enrolls ate Ole Miss
One. Ross Barnett, the governor of Mississippi, refused to let James Meredith enroll. Two. Kennedy ordered the army to send several thousand troops to escort him to campus. And for the rest of the year he attended classes under federal guard. -
Medgar Evers Assassinated
One. Medgar Evers was a Civil Rights leader. Two. He was shot to death by white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith. -
The March on Washington
One. The purpose of the March on Washington was to lobby Congress and to build more public support for the civil rights movement. Two. Dr. King also improvised a famous speech "I have a dream." -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
One. President Johnson passed the law. Two. The law gave federal government power to prevent racial discrimination. The law made segregation illegal in most places of public accommodation. The law gave attorney general more power to bring lawsuits to force school segregation, and required private employers to end discrimination in the work place. It also established the Equal Employment Opportunity commission ( EEOC ) as a permanent agency in the federal government. -
March to Selma
One. African Americans fought to get a Voting Rights Act passed. Two. The sheriff ordered 200 state troopers and deputized citizens to rush at the marchers. Three. The result was 70 African Americans injured and many more hospitalized. And 8 days later the president proposed a new voting rights law. -
Jonathan Daniels murdered
Jonathan Daniels was a white activist who arrested for participating in a voting rights demonstration in Fort Deposit, Alabama. After getting out of jail Jonathan was with some friends including Ruby Sales. They were walking over to a store to get soda when they were met by Tom Coleman. He pointed the shotgun at Ruby, and Jonathan then pushed her to the ground, saving her life. Because he was immediately killed by the shotgun blast. -
Thurgood Marshall first black Supreme Court Justice
One. Thurgood Marshall was an attorney before becoming a Supreme Court Justice. Two. It meant black discrimination was starting to end. -
The Orangeburg Massacre
The incident happened when 200 students gathered at South Carolina State University, to protest black segregation at a nearby bowling alley. It was the 3rd night of protests and the police attempted to put out a bonfire they had started. One officer had gotten a piece of banister thrown at him and was injured, so a highway patrol men shot his gun into the air to control the crowd. Other officers heard and fired into the crowd thinking they were being shot at, and it resulted in the death of 3. -
The Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King
One. He was standing on his hotel balcony in Memphis, and then Dr. King was assassinated by a sniper. Two. It was the end of the civil rights movement, an important era in American history.
