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March on Washington

lasenbym — 2025-05-14 15:49:21 UTC

March on Washington was one of the largest political rally for human rights.-AARP source.

Mississippi Riot

lasenbym — 2025-05-14 15:59:20 UTC

1962 is most notably marked by James Meredith's enrollment as the first African American at a University on sep 30, 1962.

This sparked a violent riot that led to widespread unrest on campus and surrounding areas.

Freedom Summer

lasenbym — 2025-05-14 16:03:52 UTC

This legislation outlawed segregation in public spaces and discrimination in employment and education. Freedom Summer aimed to empower African Americans in one of the most segregated states.

Montgomery Bus Boycott

herringd3 — 2025-05-14 16:07:37 UTC

The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a 13-month protest by African Americans in Montgomery, Alabama,who refused to ride city busses to protest segregated seating. This Boycott was influenced by Rosa parks arrest for refusing to give up he rbus seat to a white passenger.

Brown vs Board of Education

lasenbym — 2025-05-14 18:52:03 UTC

On May 17, 1954, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren delivered the unanimous ruling in the landmark civil rights case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. State-sanctioned segregation of public schools was a violation of the 14th amendment and was therefore unconstitutional. This historic decision marked the end of the "separate but equal" precedent set by the Supreme Court nearly 60 years earlier in Plessy v. Ferguson and served as a catalyst for the expanding civil rights movement.-National Archives

Greensboro Sit-Ins

lasenbym — 2025-05-14 18:56:29 UTC

Four Black students stage the first sit-in at a Woolworth’s lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina.-infoplease.com

Selma, AL

lasenbym — 2025-05-14 18:59:41 UTC

Black people begin a march to Montgomery in support of voting rights but are stopped at the Pettus Bridge by a police blockade. Fifty marchers are hospitalized after police use tear gas, whips, and clubs against them. The incident is dubbed "Bloody Sunday" by the media. The march is considered the catalyst for pushing through the voting rights act five months later.-infoplease.com

Freedom Riders

herringd3 — 2025-05-15 15:02:47 UTC

Freedom Riders were groups of white and African American civil rights activists who participated in Freedom Rides, bus trips through the American South in 1961.

Bethel Baptist Church bombed

herringd3 — 2025-05-15 16:02:19 UTC

The home of the Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, civil rights leader and pastor of Bethel Baptist Church, is bombed in Birmingham, Alabama.

Little Rock School integration crisis

herringd3 — 2025-05-15 16:10:11 UTC

De-segregating Little Rock Central High School (1957) · White parents rally against integrating Little Rock's schools.

Boynton V. Virginia

herringd3 — 2025-05-15 16:11:42 UTC

Boynton v. Virginia, 364 U.S. 454, was a landmark decision of the US Supreme Court. The case overturned a judgment convicting an African American law student for trespassing by being in a restaurant in a bus terminal which was "whites only"