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The event triggers many similar nonviolent protests throughout the South. The law also provides the federal government with the powers to enforce desegregation.

Aug. Literacy tests, poll taxes, and other such requirements that were used to restrict black voting are made illegal.

Aug. As newly elected president of the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA), Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., is instrumental in leading the boycott.

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1957

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Martin Luther King, Charles K.

Steele, and Fred L. Shuttlesworth establish the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, of which King is made the first president. Byron De La Beckwith is tried twice in 1964, both trials resulting in hung juries. April 29 (Los Angeles, Calif.) The first race riots in decades erupt in south-central Los Angeles 1992 after a jury acquits four white police officers for the videotaped beating of African American Rodney King.

They later boast about committing the murder in a Look magazine interview. His articulate challenges to systemic oppression resonated widely during the turbulent 1960s. They later boast about committing the murder in a Look magazine interview. Although largely 1971 unwelcome (and sometimes violently opposed) in local school districts, court-ordered busing plans in cities such as Charlotte, Boston, and Denver continue until the late 1990s.

The incident is dubbed "Bloody Sunday" by the media. April 19 Stokely Carmichael, a leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), coins the phrase "black power" in a speech in Seattle. Their contributions remind us of the power of both nonviolence and direct action. He defines it as an assertion of black pride and "the coming together of black people to fight for their liberation by any means necessary." The term's radicalism alarms many who believe the civil rights movement's effectiveness and moral authority crucially depend on nonviolent civil disobedience.

The Civil War (1861-1865) remains one of the most pivotal moments in American history. Byron De La Beckwith is tried twice in 1964, both trials resulting in hung juries. As newly elected president of the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA), Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., is instrumental in leading the boycott.

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(Neshoba Country, Miss.) The bodies of three civil-rights workers—two white, one black—are found in an earthen dam, six weeks into a federal investigation backed by President Johnson. Her bravery exemplified the courage of countless women advocating for change. 1967 June 12 In Loving v.

The influence of these leaders extended beyond their lifetime, shaping the ongoing fight for justice.