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Brown V. Board of Education
was a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court that declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students unconstitutional. The decision overturned the Plessy v. Ferguson decision of 1896 which allowed state-sponsored segregation. Handed down on May 17, 1954, the Warren Court's unanimous (9–0) decision stated that "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal." As a result, de jur -
Mongomery Bus Boycott
The Montgomery Bus Boycott officially started on December 1, 1955. That was the day when the blacks of Montgomery, Alabama, decided that they would boycott the city buses until they could sit anywhere they wanted, instead of being relegated to the back when a white boarded. -
Freedom Rides
Seven blacks and and six whites left Washington DC on two public buses bound for the deep south. They intedned to test the surpreme courts' ruling in Boynton v. Virgina which declared segregation in interstate bus and rail stations unconstitutional. -
birmingham Children's March and Boycott
The children of Birmingham Alabama flooded the streets and city's jails to challenge segregation. -
Woolworth's Sit-in
When a crowd of white people antagonized Blacks while inside a restaraunt while police and others stood by and watched approvingly. -
March on Washingotn
The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom took place in Washington, D.C., on August 28, 1963. Attended by some 250,000 people, it was the largest demonstration ever seen in the nation's capital, and one of the first to have extensive television coveraage -
Selma to Montgomery March
Martin Luther King Jr. led thousands of nonviolent demonstrators to the steps of the capital in Montgomery Alabama, where local African americans, the SNCC, and SCLC had been campaining for voting rights.
