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Civils Rights Movements

A part of history

1955-1956

1954

1957

1865

1896

Montgomery Bus Boycott

Brown v. Board of Education

Segregation (Plessy v. Ferguson).

The Little Rock Nine

13th Amendment

Civils Rights Movements

1964

August 1963

March 1965

1960

1961

March on Washington

Freedom Rides

Selma Marches

Civil Rights Act

Sit-in-Movement

Civils Rights Movements

August 1965

April 4, 1968

Martin Luther King Jr.

Voting Rights Act

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Have_a_Dream

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17th May 1954 / 31st May 1955

The court says kids of all colors must go to school together.

Linda Brown

7th / 25th March 1965

People march for the right to vote

Amelia Boynton

1st December 1955

People stop using buses to protest unfair seats.

Rosa Parks

4th May 1961

People ride to the South to fight for equality.

John Robert Lewis

(the American civil‑rights activist)

6th August 1965

This law makes it easier for Black people to vote.

Martin Luther King Jr.

25th September 1957

Nine students go to an all-white school to study. For example one of the nines students :

Elizabeth Eckford

4th April 1968

Martin Luther King Jr. is assasinated in Memphis

Martin Luther King Jr.

2nd July 1964

A new law stops discrimination in public places.

Lyndon B. Johnson

18th May 1896

A law says "separate but equal" is okay.

Homer Plessy

31 st December 1865

Slavery becomes illegal in the USA.

Abraham Lincoln

1st Febraury 1960

Students sit at a "white-only" lunch table to protest.

Ezra Blair Jr.

28th August 1963

African-American people march on Washington for equal rights.

Martin Luther King Jr.