1960's civil rights movement

By Markeise Thomas

  • CORE

    CORE
    In 1942, the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) was founded to challenge segregation in public accommodations in the North

  • Brown vs board of education

    Brown vs board of education
    In May 1954, the Court issued its landmark ruling in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka

  • Rosa

    Rosa
    In December 1955, Rosa Parks, a member of the Montgomery, Alabama, branch of the NAACP, was told to give up her seat on a city bus to a white person.

  • Quote

    If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.

  • Sit in

    Sit in
    On February 1, 1960, four African American college students from North Carolina A&T University began protesting racial segregation in restaurants by sitting at “White Only” lunch counters and waiting to be served.

  • Election

    Election
    Nixon vs kennedy election

  • Voter registration

    Voter registration
    Starting in 1961, SNCC and CORE organized voter registration campaigns in the predominantly African American counties of Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia.

  • Chart

    Chart

  • Fred hampton

    Fred hampton
    Fred Hampton, a leader for the Black Panther Party in Chicago, Illinois was killed in his apartment during a police raid while sleeping, unarmed in 1968. The police raid was in retaliation for a previous shoot out police had with members of the Black Panther Party that killed two policemen.

  • Tom bradley elected mayor

    Tom bradley elected mayor
    Thomas Bradley was the 38th Mayor of Los Angeles, serving from 1973 to 1993. He has been the only African-American mayor of Los Angeles, and his 20 years in office mark the longest tenure by any mayor in the city's history

  • Trayvon Martin

    Trayvon Martin
    On the night of February 26, 2012, in Sanford, Florida, United States, George Zimmerman fatally shot Trayvon Martin, a 17-year-old African American high school student. All because he believed that a pack of skittles and an arizona tea were weapons

  • Philando

    Philando
    On July 6, 2016, Philando Castile was shot and killed by Jeronimo Yanez, a St. Anthony, Minnesota, police officer, after being pulled over in Falcon Heights, a suburb of Saint Paul. Castile was in a car with his girlfriend, Diamond Reynolds, and her four-year-old daughter when he was pulled over by Yanez and another officer.

  • More likely to be suspended

    More likely to be suspended
    Black students are more likely to be suspended than their white classmates, according to the report cards. During the 2015-16 school year, black students in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro school system were 10 times more likely to be suspended than white students, 8.7 times more likely in Durham and 7.8 times more likely in Wake County.