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The Selma to Montgomery march was part of a series of civil-rights protests that occurred in 1965 in Alabama.. In March of that year, in an effort to register black voters in the South, protesters marching the 54-mile route from Selma to the state capital of Montgomery were confronted with deadly violence from local authorities and white vigilante groups. As the world watched, the protesters,under the protection of federalized National Guard troops, finally achieved their goal, walking around the clock for three days to reach Montgomery. It raised awareness of the difficulties faced by black voters, and the need for a national Voting Rights Act. " Bloody Sunday was the day that MLK announced that he would be leading the march form Selma to Montgomery

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Children's March took place on March 2-4. The purpose of the march was to end segregation and also for the Civil Right. 250,000 people attended the March. About 60,000 to 95,000 were Caucasian. In 1964 Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act was removed so all the legal barriers to equal rights. During the march even children was arrested. People stayed in jail for up to 3 weeks because they attended the march. They ate only one sandwich a day. High school students were hit by high-pressure water jet from firefighters. 1,000 kids were arrested. Sheriff Bull Conner ordered the police to be people with stick, let the dogs out to bite, and sprayed them water.

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Freedom Summer & murder of 3 civil rights workers

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Freedom Summer & murder of 3 civil rights workers

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Freedom Summer, also known as the the Mississippi Summer Project, was a 1964 voter registration drive aimed at increasing black voter registration in Mississippi. The Ku Klux Klan, police and state and local authorities carried out a series of violent attacks against the activists, including arson, beatings, false arrest and the murder of at least three people. On June 15, 1964, the first three hundred arrived. The next day, two of the white students, Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman, both from New York, and a local African American, James Chaney, disappeared.
Their badly beaten bodies were not discovered for six weeks, certainty that they had been murdered swept the country and helped precipitate the passage of a long-pending civil rights bill in Congress.

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On September 15, 1963, before the Sunday service at 16th st baptist church a bomb went off at the Birmingham Church in Alabama. Four young girls were killed and many other people injured. Outrage over the incident and the violent clash between protesters and police that followed helped draw national attention to the civil rights movement for African Americans. Outrage over the death of the four young girls helped build increased support behind the continuing struggle to end segregation—support that would help lead to the passage of both the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

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Greensboro sit-ins, SNCC, & freedom riders

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Greensboro sit-ins, SNCC, & freedom riders

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In the year 1960 young African Americans staged a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro and refused to leave after being refused service. The sit-in soon spread to college towns throughout the south. Many protesters were arrested for trespassing, disorderly conduct or disturbing the peace their actions had a immediate and long lasting effects. The freedom riders Were made up of 7 African Americans & 6 Americans that went to the deep south on two buses with the intention of testing the supreme court ruling in Boynton v. Virginia.

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Emmett Till was murdered August 28, 1955. The boy was only fourteen years old when his life was taken. At the time he was visiting family in Mississippi, Till was from Chicago, so things were very different in Mississippi. He was killed for flirting with a white women. This caused an uproar everywhere.

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The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a protest where African Americans refused to ride the city buses in Montgomery, Alabama, to protest against the segregated seating. This effected the buses as well as those who needed the bus to get around. This happened in the year 1955.

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Brown vs The Board of Education of Topeka was a landmark Supreme Court case in which the justices ruled unanimously that racial segregation of children in public schools was unconstitutional. Brown vs The Board of Education helped establish that “separate-but-equal” education wasn't equal at all. This happened in the year 1954.

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In 1957 mayor of Arkansas ordered the Arkansas National guard to prevent African Americans from enrolling at Central High School. The little rock were nine African Americans that had gone to Central High to enroll this started a all-out riot. The mayor did nothing about the violence until he was able to make a direct plea to president Eisenhower. Eisenhower sent in the Arkansas National Guard along with 1000 U.S. Army paratroopers to stop the riot.

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On Sept. 9th, 1971, Prisoners rioted and seized control of the maximum-security Attica Correctional Facility near Buffalo, New York. Later that day, state police retook most of the prison, but 1,281 convicts occupied an exercise field called D Yard, where they held 39 prison guards and employees hostage for four days. After negotiations stalled, state police and prison officers launched a disastrous raid on September 13, in which 10 hostages and 29 inmates were killed in an indiscriminate hail of gunfire. It captured the attention of the nation during the hard times of the Vietnam War and its opposition.

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Memphis & the Poor People’s March of 1968

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Memphis & the Poor People’s March of 1968

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The Poor People's March was a political campaign that culminated in a demonstration held in Washington D.C. Participants demanded that the government formulate a plan to help redress the employment and housing problems of the poor throughout the United States. Martin Luther King Jr. and others decided to launch the campaign to highlight and find solutions to many of the problems facing the country’s poor. The campaign eventually would lead up to the Poor People's March in 1968. The campaign was not successful but it shaped the future of the civil rights movement.

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The Black Panthers were a political organization formed in 1966. Dressed in black berets and black leather jackets, the Black Panthers organized armed citizen patrols of Oakland and other U.S. cities. The organization later declined as a result of internal tensions, deadly shootouts and FBI counterintelligence activities aimed at weakening the organization. The Black Power Movement was a political and social movement whose advocates believed in racial pride, self-sufficiency, and equality for all people of Black and African descent. The Black Power Movement became violent

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The March on Washington was a massive protest in August of 1963 involving 250,000 people. It aimed to draw attention to continuing challenges and inequalities faced by African Americans a century after emancipation. Randolph and his chief aide, Bayard Rustin, planned a march that would call for fair treatment and equal opportunity for black Americans, as well as advocate for passage of the Civil Rights Act. It was also the occasion of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s now-iconic “I Have A Dream” speech. JFK endorsed the march and tasked his brother, Robert F. Kennedy, with coordinating security measures.