INTERACTIVE EVENT GUIDE

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The Civil Rights Museum

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Brown Vs. Board of education was a supreme court case that declared "seperate but equal" was unconstitutional in the department of educationThe supreme court declared that school segregation is illegal and schools need to desegregate quickly.

Brown Vs. Board Of Education

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blacks protesting in front of a school

newspaper article explaining school segregation is banned

this is linda brown, she was a school girl that tried to enroll in an all white school, she became the start of this court case

The greensboro sit ins was a protesting movement apart of the civil rights movement. On Febuary 1st 1960 in North Carolina, a group of african american students sat and protested in segregated lunch counters and restraunts. They didn't move until they were served with things they ordered. It led to dining facilities across the South were being integrated, provided a nonviolent resistance and success for part of the civil rights movement.

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The Greensboro Sit-Ins

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this is one of the groups protesting

this is the diner that the protests were started in

these are the counters that they sat at

The Montgomery Bus boycott was an event in 1955 where Rosa Parks rejected a bus driver's order to leave a row of four seats in the "colored" section once the white section had filled up and moved to the back of the bus. Her defiance sparked a successful boycott of buses in Montgomery a few days later. Residents then refused to board the city's buses as a peaceful protests.

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Rosa Parks And The Montgomery Bus Boycott

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this is an image of an empty bus while the protest was taking place

this is an image of Rosa's mugshot before going to jail

this is a picture of protesters riding bikes to their work instead of riding the bus as a protest