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Plessy vs. Ferguson
Upheld segregation laws and created the law "Separate but equal" -
Brown vs. Board of Education
Supreme Court case that ruled segregation unconstitutional -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
African Americans boycotted busses due to segregation and the arrest of Rosa Parks -
Rosa Parks arrest
Rosa Parks arrested for refusing to give up her seat on the bus for a white woman -
Emmett Till murder
Young black boy Emmett Till was lynched by racists for talking to a white woman at a store. -
MLK arrested for first time
MLK was arrested during the montgomery bus boycott for the first time in his civil rights career -
JFK assasination
Civil rights supporting president Kennedy was assasinated -
LBJ sworn in
LBJ, who was also a civil rights supporter, was sworn in -
March on Washington
250,000 civil rights protesters gathered at the Lincoln Memorial to protest. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous "I have a dream," speech. -
LBJ re-elected
LBJ was re-elected.
