Civil Rights Movement Dr. Martin Luther King
Published on Nov 19, 2015
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Rosa parks is arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery , AL . Martin Luther king Jr.leads a boycott of Montgomery buses that lasts over a year.(1955)
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September 24th, 1957
Nine black students integrate with white students at Central High School in Little Rock, AR.
President Eisenhower sends the paratroopers to keep peace.
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August 28th, 1963
More than 250,000 civil rights demonstrators march on Washington, DC, where Martin Luther King Jr. Delivers his "l Have A Dream "speech.
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Civil Rights Act of 1964
In 1964, the Civil rights Act
Was signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson.
This act outlawed segregation and the Jim Crow laws of the south. It also outlawed discrimination based on race national background , and gender. This law gave the NAACP power in the courts.
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1978
Unita Blackwell, founding member of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, becomes the first black woman mayor in the history of Mississippi. She was previously denied right to vote there.
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