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Brown vs. Board of Education
Supreme Court decision that made segregation in public education illegal. Having won their case before the Supreme Court many African Americans were motivated to fight for their civil rights.
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Letter from a Birmingham Jail Timeline
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Rosa Parks & the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat for a white man. This led to a year long bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama. At the end of the boycott, the city buses were desegregated. Image url https://image.pbs.org/video-assets/pbs/african-americans-many-rivers-cross/105891/images/Mezzanine_440.jpg -
Little Rock Nine
First black students to attend Little Rock High School. This was shortly after segregation became became illegal public schools. The Little Rock Nine were harassed by the white students daily.
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Sit-ins
Sit-ins were a form of nonviolent protest due to businesses refusing to serve African Americans. A protester would refuse to leave a lunch counter until they were served. First sit-in took place in Greensboro, NC.
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Freedom Rides
More than 400 white and black civil rights volunteers rode buses into the South to challenge segregation laws.
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"Letter from Birmingham Jail"
Letter written by Martin Luther King Jr. after he was arrested for peacefully protesting. The letter addressed to his fellow clergymen defended civil disobedience.
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March on Washington
250,000 people gathered in front of the Lincoln Memorial to advocate for civil rights. At the end Martin Luther King Jr. gave his "I Have a Dream" speech.
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Civil Rights Act
Law passed that outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin in public places.
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Voting Rights Act
Law that banned literacy tests and discrimination in voting.
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Selma to Montgomery
54 mile march to the capital of Alabama to draw attention to the death of Jimmie Lee Jackson at the hands of police.
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Assassination of Martin Luther King
James Earl Ray assassinated Martin Luther King Jr. while he was on his hotel balcony. He was at the hotel to support black sanitation workers on strike.
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