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Socail Security
Admentments establish a Federal State Program in which it helps the aid the Permintaly or disable person. -
Henderson V. United States
Henderson Vs.United states was a landmark United States Supreme Court decsion in which the united states abolished segeration in railroad dining cars. -
Linda Brown
Linda Brown is a eight year old girl living in Topeko Kanas. She lives with in a walking distance of a white elementry school.She has to travel on a bus father away to a black school. Her dad sues the school. -
United States Army!
The United States Army High Command annouces it will desegrate the army. So Black and whites can now fight on sides of each other. -
Briggs V.Elliott
This was the first of 5 cases that was combined with the Brown V. Board of Eduaction. The case chanenged segreation in the south Summerton, South Carolina. -
Highlander Folk School
The Highlander Folk School in Monteagle, Tenn., which runs workshops on organizing protests for individuals such as union organizers, issues invitations to civil rights workers. -
Brown V. Board of Education
The Supreme Court decides Brown v. Board of Education on May 17, arguing that "separate but equal" schools are inherently unequal. The decision declares legal school segregation unconstitutional. -
Cooper V. Aaron
The Supreme Court decision Cooper v. Aaron rules that a threat of mob violence is not reason enough to delay school desegregation. -
BoyCott
The Montgomery Improvement Association elects Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., pastor of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, as president on December 5 in order to lead the boycott. -
Dr.Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Junior was arrested in 1955 when he and other civil rights activists were arested after leading a boycott in Montgomery Alamba. Transportation had it that black had to sit or stand in the back of the bus . -
Emmett Till
Emmett Till was a 14 year old black boy who was visiting in family in MIssissippi when he is kidnapped and brutally beaten shut and dumped in the Tallhatchie River for Allegedly was whistling at a white Woman. This case becomes a cause Celebre of the Civil right movement. -
Rosa Parks
Rosa parks ivigorated the struggle for racial equality when she refused to give up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama. Parks aas arrested on Decemeber 1st 1955. -
Bombings
In January and February, whites angry about the Montgomery Bus Boycott bomb four African-American churches and the homes of civil rights leaders Martin Luther King and E.D. Nixon. -
Southren Chrstian Leadership Conference
Martin Luther King helps found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) in January. The organization's purpose is to fight for civil rights, and King is elected its first president. -
Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom
The prayer Pilgriamage of Freedom was a non ~ violent demonstration in Washgtion ,DC. The 3 hour demonstration took place in front of the Lincoln Memorial. -
Cooper V. Aaron
The Supreme Court decision Cooper v. Aaron rules that a threat of mob violence is not reason enough to delay school desegregation. -
The Kissing Case of 1958
he Kissing Case involves two young African American boys named David "Fuzzy" Ezzelle Simpson and James Hanover Thompson, who were ages 7 and 9 at the time. While they were innocently playing, "Fuzzy" and James were approached and kissed on the cheek by two Caucasian girls. Once the girls' parents learned of the incident, the boys were promptly arrested and charged with rape. -
Raisin in the sun
"Raisin in the Sun," the first Broadway play by a black woman, Lorraine Hansberry, opens at the Barrymore Theater in New York. -
William Wright
William Wright becomes the first black to win a major golf tournament
