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Timeline (The Freedom Rides (May 4, 1961- Dec 10, 1961) (Letter from…
Timeline
The Freedom Rides (May 4, 1961- Dec 10, 1961)
Letter from Birmingham Jail (April 16, 1963)
March on Washington (August 28, 1963)
24th Amendment (January 23rd, 1964)
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Affirmative Action (March 6, 1961)
Sit-ins (1960)
Little Rock Nine (Sept 4, 1957)
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) (Jan 10, 1957)
Desegregation of Buses (Nov 13, 1956)
Montgomery Bus Boycotts ( Dec 5, 1955- Dec 20, 1956)
Brown v. Board of Education (Dec 9, 1952- May 17, 1954)
Executive Order 9981 (July 26, 1948)
Plessy v. Ferguson (May 18, 1896)
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an action or policy favoring those who tend to suffer from discrimination, especially in relation to employment or education; positive discrimination.
a form of protest in which demonstrators occupy a place, refusing to leave until their demands are met.
upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities as long as the segregated facilities were equal in quality
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was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional.
a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama
was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama
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was a massive protest march that occurred in August 1963, when some 250,000 people gathered in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. Also known as the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, the event aimed to draw attention to continuing challenges and inequalities faced by African Americans a century after emancipation
A poll tax was a tax of anywhere from one to a few dollars that had to be paid annually by each voter in order to be able to cast a vote.
was a volunteer campaign in the United States launched in June 1964 to attempt to register as many African-American voters as possible in Mississippi
is a landmark civil rights and US labor law in the United States that outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex or national origin.
A group of violent disturbances in Watt, a largely black sections of Los Angeles, in 1965.
A law passed at the time of the civil rights movement. It eliminated various devices, such as literacy tests, that had traditionally been used to restrict voting by black people.
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