Nikita V and Gigi L Musuem

National CivilRights Museum

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Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott

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Little Rock 9

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March on Washington and "I Have A Dream"

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MLK assassination

Greenburo Sit-Ins

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Brown vs. Board of Education

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Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott

When Rosa Parks wouldn't give up her bus seat for a white man she was arrested.

As word of her arrest got around, that same night a group of women stayed up until the next morning printing flyers to call on African Americans to boycott the buses.

About 17,000 black riders had found another method of transportation. The crowd decided this would continue until the city agreed to seat bus riders on a "First come, first served" basis.

More than a year after Rosa Parks arrest the Supreme Court ruled that Alabama's state and local laws requiring segregated buses violated the Constitution. This meant that the boycott was finally over.

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Little Rock 9

The Little Rock 9 were nine teens who were the first African American students to enter Little Rock's Central High School. Orval Faubus, the governor of Arkansas, initially prevented the nine students from entering the school. But as President Eisenhower decided, federal troops escorted the nine students into the school.

They had assigned guards to walk them from class to class. This protection was limited to the hallways. They received verbal and physical attacks from classmates. Those who befriend them faced the same treatment. The following year, the city’s high schools were closed to prevent further desegregation while the NAACP continued to pursue the legal case to integrate Little Rock’s schools.

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March On Washington and I Have A Dream Speech

"I Have a Dream" is a public speech that was delivered by Martin Luther King Jr. during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 28, 1963. It was delivered to over 250,000 civil rights supporters from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., the speech was one of the most famous moments of the civil rights movement and among the most iconic speeches in American history

The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom was partly intended to demonstrate mass support for the civil rights legislation proposed by President John F. Kennedy in June.

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Martin Luther Kings assassination

On April 4th 1968 around 6 pm MLK was at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennesse MLK was assasanited by James Earl Ray. MLK was rushed to the nearest hospital but sadly died only an hour after he was shot. This depressing event. got a lot of people together to recognize the importantice of how MLK affected the Civil Rights movement t.

In the end, MLK was a paramount leader of many blacks, he did so much to give blacks equal power to whites.

Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka

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On May 17 1954 a case called Brown vs. Board of Education in Topeka,Kansas The Court Justice Erral Warren declared that having segregated schools was uncostitual. This contradicted to the previous statement in 1896 in the Plessy vs. Fergussen case. In the previous case it was decided that schools should be segregated. This all changed thanks to Thurgood Marshall and the NAACP.

Green Buro Sit-ins

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On February 1960, 4 collage students Ezell Blair, Jr. Franklin McCain, Joseph McNeil, and David Richmond went into the Woolworth resturant ad sat at the white only counter. The servers refused to serve them. But all 4 of them stayed until cosing. There main goal was to get resturants desegregated. A lot of white people got mad and pured soup and other foods on them. More people kept going. This spread across the South.

When businesses were impacted, Greensboro opted to make peace and desegregated. This was a very impactful, peaceful, protest.