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The Civil Rights Movement Emily H.

  • Plessy V. Ferguson

    Plessy V. Ferguson
    A Supreme Court case that said racial segregation is constitutional
  • Mendez v. Westminster

    Mendez v. Westminster
    A lawsuit that said children of Mexican descendants could go to school with white children
  • Supreme Court case: Brown v. Board of Education

    Supreme Court case: Brown v. Board of Education
    Agreeing that segregation is schools is unconstitutional
  • Emmit Till murdered

    Emmit Till murdered
    Fourteen year old Emmit Till is kidnapped, shot ,beaten, and killed fro whistling at a white women
  • NAACP member Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat

    NAACP member Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat
    A women from the NAACP refuses to give up her seat for a white man. She starts a Bus Boycott
  • The Little Rock Nine

    The Little Rock Nine
    Nine black students are blocked from entering Little Rock High School
  • Greensboro Sit-Ins

    Greensboro Sit-Ins
    A nonviolent protest from four African-Americans sitting in whites seats
  • The Freedom Rides

    The Freedom Rides
    The "Freedom Riders" rode the interstate buses to the segregated South
  • 24th Amendment abolishes Poll Tax

    24th Amendment abolishes Poll Tax
    This is when the 24th Amendment abolishes Slavery