1950-1968

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    Civil Rights Movement

  • Brown v. Board

    Brown v. Board
    The Supreme court bans segregation in all schools
  • Emmett Till

    Emmett Till
    A 14 year old black boy was murdered for whistling at a white woman
  • Rosa Parks

    Rosa Parks
    Rosa Parks refused to giver her seat up to a white man on a bus, causing a bus boycott in the black community
  • Little Rock

    Little Rock
    9 black students are refused entry to school, President Eisenhower intervened, they were then admitted
  • Freedom riders

    Freedom riders
    Freedom riders began testing state laws on prehibiting segragation on buses and railroads
  • University of Alabama

    University of Alabama
    Governor George Wallace wouldnt desegrate the school, so President Kennedy came in and made him
  • 24th Amendment

    24th Amendment
    A poll tax used to stop blacks from voting is outlawed with the 24th amendment
  • The Civil Rights Act of 1964

    The Civil Rights Act of 1964
    It forbid racial discrimination
  • The Black Panthers

    The Black Panthers
    The Black Panthers are found by Bobby Seale and Huey Newton in Califorina
  • Martin Luther King

    Martin Luther King
    Martin Luther King was killed outside his house for him trying to get equality spread through everyone