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9 Cards in this Set
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Important events
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1954 Brown vs. Board of Education
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Supreme Court ruling called for desegregation of schools |
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1955 Emmett Till's Murder |
teenage African-American boy was beaten and murdered for whistling at a white woman. |
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1955-1956 Montgomery Bus Boycott |
Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on the bus to white passengers and was arrested. Boycott lasted 381 |
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1955-1964 Mass Mobilization |
Marches, freedom rides, sit-ins, Boycotts |
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1963 March on Washington |
200,000 demonstrators marched for freedom and jobs, gathered at Lincoln Memorial, Martin Luther King delivered his famous speech, "I have a dream." |
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Important People |
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Martin Luther King
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Civil Rights Leader, assassinated in 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee |
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Rosa Parks
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The Mother of the Civil Rights Movement |
