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Brown v. Board Of Education
Brown v. Board of Education was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court decided that the state laws that ruled separate public schools for African Americans and white students to be unconstitutional. This created a new opportunity for African American to have a better education but also infuriated white people because they didn't think black people were good enough to attend the same school as them. -
Rosa Parks & the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Rosa Parks is a African American woman that decided to sit at the front of a bus, that belonged to the white man to sit in. This started a whole uprising and a great boycott on the bus company that made get arrested for sitting in the front and charged her $ 10 -
Little Rock Nine & Centeral High School
Nine African American students enrolled to an all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas.These students weren't welcomed at all to the school. The state called in thier national guard to restrict the students from entering the school. The president then sent the federal troops that outrule the federal ones to allow the kids into the school. This showed that the government accepted racial diversity in the school. -
The murder of Emmett Till
A 14-year old Emmett Till an African American from Chicago, was brutally murdered for flirting with a white woman. This was something that impacted the whole African American community and caused them to realize that all this racism and injustice had to stop. -
Freedom Ride/Freedom Riders
13 African American with white companions protested segregation in the south by riding the same bus. A bus that was initially for white people was now being shared thought the whole south and many people did not like that. Despite all the hate they faced their goal was accomplished. September 1st 1961 the segregation in public busses was gone. -
March On Washington
Martin Luther King Jr. was the head of this march to Washington. Him and 200,000 more people followed him into Washington, this march had one purpose and it was to shed light on the political and social challenges African Americans continued to face across the country. He gave a speech "I have a dream" which has become one of the greatest speech the world has ever known. -
Civil Rights Act(1964)
The Civil Rights movement of 1964 was a great turning point in discrimination and inecuality. This ended segregation in public places and banned employers from discriminating by your color, religion and even sex. -
Assassination Of Malcolm X
Malcolm X was ironically and unjustly murdered by a member of his own church, Malcolm X was shot to death by Nation of Islam members while speaking at a rally of his organization in New York City. -
Assassination of MLK
Martin Luther King Jr. was the one of the greatest African American activist leaders the United States has ever seen.
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Brown v. Board Of Education
Brown v. Board of Education was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for African Americans and white students to be unconstitutional. This created a new opportunity for African Americans to get a better education in contrary or the joy of black people white people were very unhappy with this decision for they thought black people weren't worthy of attending the same classroom as them. -
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) & Freedom Summer
The Student Non-Violence Coordinator Committee or other wise known as SNCC was an organization that gave young black people more knowledge and a voice in the civil rights movement. This created events such as blacks sitting in sit-ins at lunch that didn't allow black people and kindly asked to be served and without any violence they opposed the violence they received. This infuriated the white man but have courage and strength to the black man
