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Brown vs.Board of Ed.
Stated in 1954, blacks schools where far away, whites schools were closer blacks had to walk on railroad tracks. Blacks took it to court and they got to have blacks and whites to be in the same school but only in schools. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
There was signs that said:Do not ride the bus,many rode in cabs, walked in any weather for mouths. -
Little Rock Nine
Little Rock Nine is nine black students from Little Rock Central High school,blacks where marched out by cops. -
Sit-ins
Civil disobedience, blacks sat where they only sever whites.Then they got to be severed after they lost losts of money. -
Freedom Riders
Freedom riders where black and white females and males they rode in forbiding areas,and most where beat -
Birmingham
Is the biggest place in the U.S. May 2, 1963, a large group of children was part of the March,and almost 100,00 children were in jail -
James Meredith
Enrolled in a all-white universty,lead the way leader. -
Boston Busing
The desegregation of Boston public schools (1974–1988) was a period in which the Boston Public Schools were under court control to desegregate through a system of busing students. -
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
when did it happen it started July 2, 1964 -
Martin Luther King Jr"I have a dream" speech
"I Have a Dream" is a public speech delivered by American civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 28, 1963, in which he calls for an end to racism in the United States and called for civil and economic rights. -
Martin Luther King Jr
Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Martin Luther King Jr., an American clergyman and civil rights leader, was shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968. He was rushed to St. Joseph's Hospital, and was pronounced dead at 7:05 p.m. CST. -
Plessy vs. Ferguson
The Impact. Plessy v. Ferguson allowed 'separate but equal,' also known as segregation, to become law in the United States. After this, Jim Crow laws, which were a system of laws meant to discriminate against African Americans, spread across the U.S. -
March on Washington
This program listed the events scheduled at the Lincoln memoral dAugest 28,1963 -
March from Selma
When about 600 people started a planned march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, on Sunday March 7, 1965, it was called a demonstration. When state troopers met the demonstrators at the edge of the city by the Edmund Pettus Bridge, that day became known as "Bloody Sunday." -
Mississippi Freedom Summer
Freedom Summer was a 1964 voter registration project in Mississippi, part of a larger effort by civil rights groups such as the Congress on Racial Equality (CORE) and the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) to expand black voting in the South. -
The murder of Emmett Till
On August 24, 1955, 14-year-old Emmett Till reportedly flirted with a white cashier in Money, Mississippi. Four days later, two white men tortured and murdered Till. His murder galvanized the emerging Civil Rights Movement. -
Formation of the NAACP
February 12, 1909, New York City, NY -
Desegregation of the military
On July 26, 1948, President Harry S. Truman signed this executive order establishing the President's Committee on Equality of Treatment and Opportunity in the Armed Services, committing the government to integrating the segregated military. -
Rodney king Trail
Beating by LAPD. Born on April 2, 1965, in Sacramento, California, Rodney Glen King was an African American who became a symbol of racial tension in America, after his beating by Los Angeles police officers in 1991 was videotaped and broadcast to the nation -
The voting rights act of 1965
The Voting Rights Act of 1965, signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson, aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote as guaranteed under the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. -
Rosa Parks
Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was an activist in the civil rights movement best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery Bus Boycott. -
Birmingham Campaign
A movement to protest the segregation in public facilities, restaurants, parks, and stores.Protests began with a boycott and stared a series of sit-ins and marches intened to spark mass arrest. -
birmingham campaign
A movement to protest the segregation in public facilities, restaurants, parks, and stores.Protests began with a boycott and stared a series of sit-ins and marches intened to spark mass arrest. -
Ruby Bridges
The first black child to attend an all white elementary school in New Orleans in 1960. -
John F. Kennedy
Assassinated November 22, 1963, Dallas, TX -
Birmingham Bombing
Date: September 15, 1963
Location: 16th Street Baptist Church, Birmingham, AL
Number of deaths: 4
Target: 16th Street Baptist Church Wikipedia
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Harry Truman
Harry S. Truman was an American statesman who served as the 33rd President of the United States, taking the office upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt. -
Lyndon Johnson
Lyndon Baines Johnson, often referred to by his initials LBJ, was an American politician who served as the 36th President of the United States from 1963 to 1969 -
orval faubus
Lyndon Baines Johnson, often referred to by his initials LBJ, was an American politician who served as the 36th President of the United States from 1963 to 1969 -
medgar evers
Medgar Wiley Evers was an African American civil rights activist in Mississippi and the state's field secretary of the NAACP. -
SCLC
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference is an African-American civil rights organization. SCLC, which is closely associated with its first president, Martin Luther King Jr., had a large role in the American civil rights movement. -
SNCC
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was one of the major Civil Rights Movement organizations of the 1960s. It emerged from the first wave of student sit-ins and formed at an April 1960 meeting organized by Ella Baker at Shaw University. -
Jackie Robinson
Jack Roosevelt Robinson was an American professional baseball second baseman who became the first African American to play in Major League Baseball in the modern era. -
Ross Barnett
Ross Robert Barnett was the Governor of Mississippi from 1960 to 1964. He was a prominent member of the Dixiecrats, Southern Democrats who supported racial segregation -
Malcolm X
Malcolm X was an African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist. To his admirers he was a courageous advocate for the rights of blacks, -
Richard Nixon
Richard Milhous Nixon was an American politician who served as the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 until 1974, when he resigned from office, the only U.S. president to do so. -
Dwight Eisenhower
Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower was an American army general and statesman who served as the 34th President of the United States from 1953 to 1961 -
Thurgood Marshall
Thurgood Marshall was an American lawyer, serving as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from October 1967 until October 1991. Marshall was the Court's 96th justice and its first African-American justice -
Stokely Carmichael
Kwame Ture was a prominent organizer in the Civil Rights Movement in the United States and the global Pan-African movement -
George Wallace
George Corley Wallace Jr. was an American politician and the 45th Governor of Alabama, having served two nonconsecutive terms and two consecutive terms as a Democrat: 1963–1967, 1971–1979 and 1983–1987. -
Kerner Commission
The National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, known as the Kerner Commission after its chair, Governor Otto Kerner, Jr. of Illinois, was an 11-member Presidential Commission established by President Lyndon B. Johnson in Executive Order 11365 to investigate the causes of the 1967 race riots in the United States . -
Civil rights
the rights of citizens to political and social freedom and equality. -
Affirmative Action
an action or policy favoring those who tend to suffer from discrimination, especially in relation to employment or education; positive discrimination. -
Discrimination
the unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people or things, especially on the grounds of race, age, or sex. -
Jim Crow Laws
jim Crow laws were state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States. -
Massive Resistance
Massive resistance was a strategy declared by U.S. Senator Harry F. Byrd, Sr. of Virginia along with his brother-in-law as the leader in the Virginia General Assembly, Democrat Delegate James M. Thomson of Alexandria, to unite white politicians and leaders in Virginia in a campaign of new state laws and policies -
Racism
prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one's own race is superior. -
Black power
a movement in support of rights and political power for black people, especially prominent in the US in the 1960s and 1970s. -
De Facto Segregation
Racial segregation, especially in public schools, that happens “by fact” rather than by legal requirement. For example, often the concentration of African-Americans in certain neighborhoods produces neighborhood schools that are predominantly black, or segregated in fact ( de facto ), although not by law -
Federalism
the federal principle or system of government -
Passive Resistance
nonviolent opposition to authority, especially a refusal to cooperate with legal requirements. -
Reverse Discrimination
(in the context of the allocation of resources or employment) the practice or policy of favoring individuals belonging to groups known to have been discriminated against previously. -
States rights
the rights and powers held by individual US states rather than by the federal government. -
De jure Segregation
Legal racial segregation, especially in public schools, that happens "by fact" rather than by legal requirement. example of de facto segregation. The high concentration of African-Americans in a neighborhood produces a neighborhood school that is predominantly black (segregated in fact, although not by law). de jure. -
Lynch(ings)
(of a mob) kill (someone), especially by hanging, for an alleged offense with or without a legal trial. -
Poll Tax
a tax levied on every adult, without reference to income or resources. -
separate but equal
racially segregated but ostensibly ensuring equal opportunities to all races. -
stereotypes
a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing. -
civil disobedience
the refusal to comply with certain laws or to pay taxes and fines, as a peaceful form of political protest. -
Desegregation
the ending of a policy of racial segregation -
Grandfather Clause
a clause exempting certain classes of people or things from the requirements of a piece of legislation affecting their previous rights, privileges, or practices. -
Martyrdom
the death or suffering of a martyr. -
prejudice
preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience. -
segregation
the action or state of setting someone or something apart from other people or things or being set apart. -
Birmingham riot
The Birmingham riot of 1963 was a civil disorder in Birmingham, Alabama, that was provoked by bombings on the night of May 11, 1963. The bombings targeted black leaders of the Birmingham campaign, a mass protest for racial justice. -
March Against Fear
The March Against Fear was a major 1966 demonstration in the Civil Rights Movement in the South. Activist James Meredith launched the event on June 6, 1966, intending to make a solitary walk from Memphis, -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
The Voting Rights Act of 1965, signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson, aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote as guaranteed under the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. -
civil rights act of 1968
The Civil Rights Act of 1968 defines housing discrimination as the “refusal to sell or rent a dwelling to any person because of his race, color, religion, or national origin”. Title VIII of this Act is commonly referred to as the Fair Housing Act of 1968. -
integration at the university of mississippi
James Howard Meredith is a Civil Rights Movement figure, writer, political adviser and Air Force veteran. -
Literacy Tests
Southern state legislatures employed literacy tests as part of the voter registration process starting in the late 19th century. Literacy tests, along with poll taxes, residency and property restrictions and extra-legal activities (violence, intimidation) were all used to deny suffrage to African Americans.
