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Plessy v. Ferguson
Hommer Plessy was mix but look white. He decided that it was okay to sit in a white car, but in this case he got arrested. he lost the court case because they said that segregation was okay if it was equal. yhis was another case that added more tension to the conflict of thecivil rights
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Brown v. Board of Education
This case was between Oliver Brown and the Topeka, Kansas school board and the conflic was that they had seperated public schools for blacks and whites. This was amajor court case that was violating the 14th ammendment. Due to this the court rule it for Oliver Brown and this favor african americans which help the civil right movement.
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Murder of Emmett Till
Emmet Till was a fourteen year old that was accuse to be flirting with a white girl. Due to tthis white people murder him and dumped him into the Tallahatchie River. In the trial Milam and Bryan were declare innocent and this helps this move because the newspaper spread world wide and this news makes the US look bad.
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Rosa Parks & the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Rosa parks was a black lady who sat in a white people sit. this attrcted the white people attention and they asked her to move, she refuse and got arrested. Due to this event the bus companies lost money and was considerthe first boycott in this revolution.
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Founding of Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) & Martin Luther King
This organization was lead by Martin Luther King Jr. it organize nonviolent protest and was founded by sixty ministers. The SCLC catch the attention of the peoples and with the contribution of mainly African Americansthe organization helped with the civil rights.
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Little Rock Nine & Central High School
In this event nine students who were African Americans enroll in Central High School. the school and the National Guard wouldnt let the students pass but the president help them get in with his power. Although it was hard for the students, the government show a little bit more support and was one of the effects of the movement.
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Greensboro Sit-In
In a dine in four black college students sat down in an only white area. This cause alot of violence towards them but they didnt do anything. The news spread and alot of people started joining them. this help the African American image during the civil right movement because the white look like the bad guy in the eyes of the world.
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Freedom Ride/Freedom Riders
The activist writing a bus were both black and white and were supporting the civil right movement in the south.This event almost killed a dozen of activist due to violence. This cought the attention of the people world wide and cause d a petition to e created that segregation in interstate travel.
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March on Washington
this march was one of the biggest and one of the most important event in history. this march ended up in Licoln Memorial and this is were MLK gave the speech "I have a dream". this was the last event that ended the civil right movement.
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Civil Rights Act
The Civil Right Act was sign by President Lyndon Johnson. This ended segregation in public and made us all equal.It benefited the African Ammerican and wasa cause of the Civil Rights.
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Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) & Freedom Summer
The SNCC organization was reruting college students to work in Mississippi.Also they were trying to get African-Americans to vote. The challenge fail becausethey were attacked and punished. This helped the Afrcan American because the congress saw what happened and this gave thecance for blacks vote and run for office or any political postition in Mississippi.
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Assassination of Malcolm X
Malcom X was assasin by Nation of Muslim.Elijah Muhammad gave the oder to kill him and it impacted the country because it was one of the major leaders in the movement. Although he die he provided alot of positive changes to the ountry with his ideas.
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Voting Rights Act
In the South blacks it was impossible for th because they had to pass hard test by memory.In the other hand, the whites had to take easy test.. Rapidly things started to get violence due to the unfairness. President Lyndon Johnson immidiately change the voting act and passed a law that prohibit the discrimination on the black race to vote. http://ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=100 -
Assassination of MLK
Martin Luther King Jr. was heading to Tennessee for a march. When he was walking outside to talk to an organization he was shot down in the balcony that he was sitting on. He was pronouned dead and this created a riot andduring the ceremony of MLK's funurel everybody nationwidein whitness this tragical event.
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