-
Period: to
Civil Rights Movements
-
Rev Brown vs Board Of Education
Rev Brown filed a case against the Board of Education of Topeka. With the help of the NAACP, Brown won the right in the Supreme Court to send his child to a white school. -
Emmett Till Murder
Emmett Till, a black boy, is brutally murdered for allegedly whistling at a white woman in Mississippi. The two white men charged with the crime later boast about committing the murder. -
Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat in the "coloured section" of a bus to a white passenger. In response to her arrest Montgomery's black community launch a successful year-long bus boycott. -
Black Rock Nine
Nine black students exercised their right to go to a white school in Little Rock, Arkansas. Mobs threatened the students, and even the governor of Arkansas tried to stop them by sending in the National Guard. President Eisenhower eventually took charge and used soldiers to protect the students -
Sit-ins
Sit-ins took place when black students went and sat in white restaurants until they were attacked and thrown out. -
SNCC
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) is founded. This provided young blacks with a place in the civil rights movement. -
Freedom Riders
Over the spring and summer, student volunteers begin taking bus trips through the South to test out new laws that prohibit segregation in interstate travel facilities, which includes bus and railway stations. Freedom Riders were black and white activists who travelled together on interstate buses – many were badly beaten by white mobs. -
James Meredith
James Meredith becomes the first black student to enrol at the University of Mississippi (Oct. 1). President Kennedy sends 5,000 federal troops after rioting breaks out. -
Martin Luther King Arrested
Martin Luther King is arrested and jailed during anti-segregation protests in Birmingham, Alabama. He writes "Letter from Birmingham Jail” during his time there. -
"I Have A Dream" Speech
Martin Luther king gave his “I Have A Dream” speech to over a quarter of a million people that marched to the Lincoln Memorial. -
Civil Rights Act Signing
President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act. This act prohibits discrimination of all kinds based on race, colour, religion, or national origin.
