Know ur civil rights? (movement events) GET 10 POINTS!!?

Question: Know ur civil rights!? (movement events) GET 10 POINTS!!!?

can someone list events of the civil rights movement during the 1960s!?Www@QuestionHome@Com

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1960 Feb!. 1
(Greensboro, N!.C!.) Four black students from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College begin a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter!. Although they are refused service, they are allowed to stay at the counter!. The event triggers many similar nonviolent protests throughout the South!. Six months later the original four protesters are served lunch at the same Woolworth's counter!. Student sit-ins would be effective throughout the Deep South in integrating parks, swimming pools, theaters, libraries, and other public facilities!.

April
(Raleigh, N!.C!.) The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) is founded at Shaw University, providing young blacks with a place in the civil rights movement!. The SNCC later grows into a more radical organization, especially under the leadership of Stokely Carmichael (1966–1967)!.

1961 May 4
Over the spring and summer, student volunteers begin taking bus trips through the South to test out new laws that prohibit segregation in interstate travel facilities, which includes bus and railway stations!. Several of the groups of "freedom riders," as they are called, are attacked by angry mobs along the way!. The program, sponsored by The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), involves more than 1,000 volunteers, black and white!.

Oct!. 1 1962
James Meredith becomes the first black student to enroll at the University of Mississippi!. Violence and riots surrounding the incident cause President Kennedy to send 5,000 federal troops!.

Apr 16 1963
Martin Luther King is arrested and jailed during anti-segregation protests in Brmingham, Alabama

May 1963
During civil rights protests in Birmingham, Alabama, Commisioner of Public Safety Eugene "Bull" Connor uses fire hoses and police dogs on black demonstrators!.

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Here is a link to a timeline of the Civil Rights Movement!. Much of it deals with the '60's!.Www@QuestionHome@Com