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McLaurin v. Oklahoma
Click this link to read the Court's Case!On June 5, 1950, the United States Supreme Court ruled that a public institution of higher learning could not provide different treatment to a student solely because of his/her race as doing so deprived the student of his/her Fourteenth Amendment rights of Equal Protection. -
Brown v. Board of Education
Supreme Court Judge, Earl Warren, wanted segregation to be considered "unconstitutional". He stated that the segregation of schools was a violation clause. The Warren Court's unanimous (9–0) decision stated that "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal." It was a violation of Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The South reacted to the Brown decision as "massive resistance" as they thought the federal government was interfering with their state's rights. -
Emmett Till
Emmett Till was from Chicago and was visiting his Uncle in Mississippi where it was reported he went into a store and flirted with a white woman. After, men came to Emmett's Uncle's house and found and shot Emmett in the head. Trial was held and the defendents were found not guilty. There was no African-Americans on jury and was considered a "racist decision" in court. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Rosa Parks who worked for the NAACP and after a long day at work, refused to give up her seat on the bus for a white man and was arrested. -
Busing
Segregated Bus systems arrived. -
Little Rock Nine
Nine African-American Students were admitted to Little Rock Central in Little Rock, AK as an attempt to integrate schools. They were harrassed and the Governor of AK had to order the National Guard to protect the students when attending school even though he was against the segregation. -
Civil Rights Act of 1957
To ensure that all African-Americans had the right to vote under President Dwight Eisenhower. -
Greensboro Sit-in
Four African-American students sat at a segregated lunch counter where only Whites were allowed to sit. The men were arrested but started over 300 peaceful sit-in movements across the United States. -
Freedom Rides
A group of people tried to challenge the segregation laws enforced and the first freedom rides left Washington, D.C. and was headed to New Orleans. -
March on Washington
Martin Luther King Jr. held a political rally at the Washington Monument and gave his famous "I have a Dream speech". He was promoting equal rights. -
Civil Rights Law of 964
Outlawed major forms of discrimination against blacks and women, including racial segregation. It ended unequal application of voter registration requirements and racial segregation in schools, at the workplace and by facilities that served the general public. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Eliminated Literacy tests when voting which African-Americans usually recieved harder questions. It also eliminated Poll tax which sometimes there was discrimination with citizens not recieving the "poll tax reminder". -
Black Nationlist
Martin Luther King Jr. was assissinated as his was shot standing on a hotel balcony.
