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1 Jim Crow Laws

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5 1947 Truman Desegregates Military

6 Dixiecrats & Strom Thurmond

7 Brown V Board of Ed. Thurgood Marshall 1954

8 Dec 1, 1955 Rosa Parks

9 Montgomery Bus Boycott

10 Martin Luther King Jr.

11 Southern Christian Leadership Conference SCLC

12 Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

13 Sit Ins

14 Little Rock Nine September 1957

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16 Never let them see you cry.

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18 Freedom Rides 1961

19 George Wallace

20 Birmingham

21 Bull Conner

22 James Meredith

23 “I Have A Dream” Aug. 28, 1963

24 Civil Rights Act 1964 Outlawed discrimination in employment Equal access to public accommodations and schools Created the Equal Opportunity Commission

25 Selma March 1965

26 Voting Rights Act 1965 Outlawed literacy tests Authorized the attorney general to send federal examiners to help with registrations Coincided with 24 th amendment that prohibited poll taxes

27 Malcolm X "The day that the black man takes an uncompromising step and realizes that he's within his rights, when his own freedom is being jeopardized, to use any means necessary to bring about his freedom or put a halt to that injustice, I don't think he'll be by himself." -- Malcolm X (Speech, 1964

28 Stokely Carmichael

29 Black Panthers Original six Black Panthers (November, 1966) Top left to right: Elbert "Big Man" Howard; Huey P. Newton (Defense Minister), Sherman Forte, Bobby Seale (Chairman). Bottom: Reggie Forte and Little Bobby Hutton (Treasurer

30 Watts Riot August 1965

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32 April 4, 1968

33 Chicano Movement

34 AIM

35 Alcatraz Wounded Knee


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