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Civil Rights Movement
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Undergraduate 2
01/23/2012

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1954
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Thurgood Marshall (NAACP) convinces the Warren Court in Brown v. Board of Education that "separate facilities are inherently unequal"
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1955 (1)
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Emmett Till is brutally murdered for acting "fresh" toward a married white woman in Mississippi
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1955 (2)
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Rosa Parks and MLK lead a year-long bus boycott in Montgomery that breaks down segregation. MLK will soon form SCLC
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1957
Definition
Ike sends in federal troops to desegregate Little Rock's Central High School.
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1960
Definition
Greensboro sit-ins begin in North Carolina, convincing thousands of southern blacks to protest elsewhere and organize SNCC
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1961
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James Farmer (CORE) leads the Freedom Rides-a brutal bus trip through the Deep South- to demonstrate that federal court decrees requiring desegregation were not being obeyed
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1962
Definition
James Meredith finally enrolls at Ole Miss, but the ensuing violence kills two
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1963 (1)
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MLK organizes Project Confrontation in Birmingham, prompting police commissioner Bull Connor to use fire hoses and dogs on the demonstrators and to jail MLK
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1963 (2)
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Alabama governor George Wallace tries, unsuccessfully, to block 2 black students from entering the University of Alabama
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1963 (3)
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MLK leads a massive march of 250,000 on Washington for civil rights legislation
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1964 (1)
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CORE & SNCC (Bob Moses) organize Freedom Summer which leaves several workers dead
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1964 (2)
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Fannie Lou Hamer leads the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party to demand seating at the national convention in Atlantic City, New Jersey
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1965
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Malcolm X is murdered in Harlem just as his inspirational autobiography is published; MLK and John Lewis of SNCC lead the bloody Selma march in Alabama, convincing Congress to enact the far reaching Voting Rights Act to register millions of blacks
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1966
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James Meredith is shot during his March From Fear from Memphis, TN to Jackson MS; Stokely Carmichael begins shouting "Black Power"
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1968
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MLK is murdered by James Earl Ray, Memphis TN
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NAACP
Definition
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
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SCLC
Definition
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
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CORE
Definition
Congress of Racial Equality
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SNCC
Definition
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
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