Civil Rights Movement.
Freedom Riders.
On May 4, 1961 a group of 13 African American and white civil rights activists launched the freedom rides. Which is a series of bus trips through the American South to protest segregation in the interstate bus terminals. They were recruited by the Congress of Racial Equality. a U.S. civil rights group , departed from Washignton D.C and attempted to integrate facilities at bus terminals along the way into the Deep South. They tried to use " whites only " facilities, lunch counters, and vice verse. They encountered tremendous violence from white protestors along the route. Over the next couple of months several hundred freedom riders engaged in similar actions.
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Million Man March
This was led by minister Louis Farrakhan, more than a billion black men gathered in Washington, D.C. to declare their right to justice to atone for their failure as men to accept responsibility as the family head. October 16, 1995 there was a sea of Black men, many who stood for 10 hours or more sharing, learning, listening, fasting, hugging, crying, laughing, and praying. It produced a spirit of brotherhood, love, and unity like never before experienced in America.The Million Man March was one of the most historic organizing and mobilizing events in the history of African Americans in the United States.
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Selma, Alabama
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in the early 1965, Martin Luther King Jr. SCLC made Selma,Alabama, the focus of its efforts to register the blacks to be able to vote in the south. The March, protesters attempting to march from Selma to the state capital of Montgomery were met with violent resistance by state local athorities. As the world watched the protesters the finally have reached there goals, walking around the clock for 3 days to reach Montgomery. the historic March and kings participation in it. A year later the Voting Rights for black people in the south was passed because of the March.
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Martin Kuther King Assassination
He was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee. King had led the civil rights movement since the mid - 1950s. using a combination of powerful words and non - violent tactics such as sitins, boycotts, and protest marches to fight segregation and achieve significant civil and voting rights advances for African Americans. He's remainder the most widely known African - American leader of his era, and the most public face of the civil rights movement, along with its most eloquent voice.
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I have a dream speech
martin Luther King was famous for one of his speeches that says stuff about the freedom of him and his people. he wanted there to be an all equal right about whites and blacks. he wished that everyone would just be a part organ equal society. but after his speech that didn't stop the whites from giving them what they want, but they still where never equal. so then soon after the people of Martin Luther King, his followers would not like what they are doing. so the speech that then had to be said again. was spoken with more of a personality that would then start a conflict.
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Sit-Ins
a time where groups of students, more preferably college students would protest. they would try to do something that would be very harmful, but would still get the word out to everyone. but sadly one time some kid was protesting with his friends & the cops thought they where going to fight against them. so the police officers took fire on the kids and they died soon after. many of this stuff started in Carolina, and some other places.
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