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what was Brown v Board of educationracial segregation at schools so campaigning for black and white people to be in education together 1951, after his daughter, Linda Brown, was denied entrance to Topeka’s all-white elementary schools resulting in mass desegregation
Emmet till informationfourteen year old visits family in Mississippi he was kidnapped, brutally beaten shot and dumped in river for allegedly whistling at a white woman. the men are arrested but not sentenced due to fully white jury
bus boycottrosa parks refuses to give up her seat on the bus for a white man defying the law in response black community boycotted going on the bus which lasted over a year until buses were desegregated in dec 21 1956
little rockformerly all white school learns integration is difficult. 9 black students blocked from entering the school. Eisenhower sends federal troops and national guard on behalf of the students. 'little rock 9'
freedom ridersstudents volunteer to take bus trips through the south to test new laws that prohibit segregation in interstate travel facilities. They are attacked along the way by angry mobs
civil rights act of 1964president johnson signs the act which prohibits discrimination of all kinds based on race, colour and religion allows federal government powers to enforce desegregation
Sit ins4 black students begin a sit in at a segregated woolworths lunch counter although refused service the could stay at the counter. triggers more nonviolent protests six months later the original four were served. 1960 feb 1
march on washington D.C.200,000 people banded together and congregating at the lincoln memorial participants listen to famous i have a dream speech. august 28th