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Facts

Date May 4, 1961 - September 1961
Location United States
Context American civil rights movement

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Freedom Riders
Explore the routes of the Freedom Rides of 1961
Jackson Police Department booking photographs of Freedom Riders
Freedom Rides Museum
Freedom Riders
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Timeline

Brown v. Board of Education
Brown v. Board of Education
May 17, 1954
Where the Greensboro sit-in happened
sit-in movement
1960 - 1961
Freedom Riders
Freedom Rides
May 4, 1961 - September 1961
March on Washington
March on Washington
August 28, 1963
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Civil Rights Act
1964
police in Watts, 1966
Watts Riots of 1965
August 11, 1965 - August 16, 1965
Mildred and Richard Loving
Loving v. Virginia
June 12, 1967
Poor People's Campaign
Poor People’s Campaign
June 19, 1968

Key People

John Lewis
John Lewis
American civil rights leader and politician
Diane Nash
Diane Nash
American civil rights activist
Stokely Carmichael
Stokely Carmichael
West Indian-American activist
Fred Shuttlesworth
Fred Shuttlesworth
American minister and civil rights activist
Rubye Robinson
American civil rights activist
Allard K. Lowenstein
American scholar, political activist, and diplomat
James Farmer
James Farmer
American civil rights activist

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