Civil rights

Civil Rights Movement

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  • Brown Vs.Board of Education

    Brown Vs.Board of Education
    Supreme Court agrees that segregated schools are unconstitutional. The decision overturns the 1896 Plessy V. Ferguson ruling "separate but equal."

  • Montgemory Bus Boycott

    Montgemory Bus Boycott
    NAACP member, Rosa Parks, refused to give up her seat at the front of the bus to a white man, defying the southern customs. This lead to the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

  • SNCC

    SNCC
    The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) is founded at Shaw University, providing young blacks a place in the civil rights movement.
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  • Freedom Riders

    Freedom Riders
    Student volunteers began taking trips through the South, testing out laws that prohibit segregation. They were attacked by angry mobs along the way. The program was sponsored by The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)

  • Martin Luther King Jr.

    Martin Luther King Jr.
    Main Civil Rights activist gets arrested during anti-segregation protests in Birmingham, Alabama.