sit-ins sit-in demon- strators, such as these at a jackson, mississippi lunch counter in 1963, faced...
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Sit-insSit-in demon-strators, suchas these at aJackson,Mississippi lunchcounter in 1963,faced intimidationand humiliationfrom white segregationists.
Freedom RidesBus rides throughthe south in theearly 1960’s to challenge segregation,particularly in inter-state transportation.Often these civil rightsactivists were metwith violence.
Integrating Ole MissRiots broke out onthe campus of theUniversity of Miss-issippi when JamesMeredith won a federal court caseallowing himto enroll in the all-white university.
March on Washington• On August 28, 1963, 250,000 people- including about 75,000whites- converged on the nation’s capital to support President Kennedy’s anti-segregation bill.• Equal access to public accommodations (school desegregation)
I have a dream
Freedom SummerA 1964 projectto register African-Americanvoters in Mississippi.For some, the jobproved deadly. Threecivil rights workers were murdered byKlansmen and localpolice in NeshobaCounty, Mississippi.
Selma March• In 1965, SCLC organized a marchfrom Selma, AL.,to Montgomery, AL.,to support votingrights. • TV captured the mayhem, 100’s pour into Selma.• That summer,Congress finally passed PresidentJohnson’s VotingRights Act of 1965.
