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Civil Rights Movement
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Brown Vs. Board of Education.
On May 17, 1954, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren delivered the unanimous ruling in the landmark civil rights case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. State-sanctioned segregation of public schools was a violation of the 14th amendment and was therefore unconstitutional. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
The Montgomery bus boycott was a 13-month mass protest that ended with the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that segregation on public buses is unconstitutional. The Montgomery Improvement Association, coordinated the boycott, and its president, Martin Luther King, Jr., became a prominent civil rights leader as international attention focused on Montgomery. -
Woolworth Sit-In.
Four students from all-black North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College walked into a Woolworth five-and-dine with the intention of ordering lunch in a whites only resturant. -
Freedom Rides.
The first Freedom Ride took place on May 4, 1961 when seven blacks and six whites left Washington, D.C., on two public buses headed for the Deep South. They intended to overturn the Supreme Court's ruling in Boynton v. Virginia., Which declared segregation in interstate bus and rail stations unconstitutional. -
Birmingham Childrens March.
On May 2 more than a thousand African American students skipped school and gathered at Sixth Street Baptist Church to march to downtown Birmingham. As they approached police lines, hundreds were arrested and carried off to jail in paddy wagons and school buses. -
The March on Washington.
The 1963 March on Washington attracted an estimated 250,000 people for a peaceful demonstration to promote Civil Rights and economic equality for African Americans. Participants walked down Constitution and Independence avenues, then 100 years after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed gathered before the Lincoln Monument for speeches, songs, and prayer.This is also whe MLK gave his famous "I have a Dream Speech". -
Selma to Montgomery March.
Sunday March 7, 1965, about six hundred people began a fifty-four mile march from Selma, Alabama to the state capitol in Montgomery. They were demonstrating for African American voting rights and to commemorate the death of Jimmie Lee Jackson, shot three weeks earlier by an state trooper while trying to protect his mother at a civil rights demonstration.
