Civil Rights
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è stato aggiornato: 14 dic 2017
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Brown V. Board of Education
On May 17, 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled
that “separate educational facilities are
inherently unequal.”Montgomery Bus Boycott
To protest Parks' arrest and the continued
segregation of Montgomery's bus lines, they
began to boycott the bus systemLittle Rock Integration
In a key event of the American Civil Rights
Movement, nine black students enrolled at
formerly all-white Central High School in Little
RockSit In Campaign
a non-violent protest by young African-American
students at a segregated Woolworth’s lunch
counter in Greensboro, North Carolina,Freedom Rides
Freedom Riders were groups of white and
African American civil rights activists who
protested segragated buss terminasMarch on Washington
March on Washington was a march for Jobs and
FreedomFreedom Summers
During the summer of 1964, hundreds of
Northern college students traveled to
Mississippi to help register black voters and
encourage participation in the Civil Rights
movement.Selma-Montgomery
protest local resistance to black voter
registration in Dallas County, Alabama.Ole Mississippi Integration
riots erupted on the campus of the University of
Mississippi in Oxford where locals, students,
and committed segregationists had gathered to
protest the enrollment of James Meredith, a
black Air Force veteranDr. KIng's Assasination
Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated by a
sniper's bullet while standing on the second-
floor balcony of his room at the Lorraine Motel
in Memphis, Tennessee.
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