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Plessy v Ferguson
Landmark constitutional law case of the supreme court. Upheld state segregation laws for public facilities under the doctrine of "separate but equal" -
Formation of the NAACP
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People -
Brown v BOE of Topeka
Case in which the results were the separation of black and white public schools being unconstitutional. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
A social protest campaign created to fight against the segregation of public transportation -
SCLC
Southern Christian Leadership Conference -
Civil Rights Act of 1957
Primarily a voting rights bill, was the first federal civil rights legislation passed by the United States Congress since the Civil Rights Act of 1875. -
Integration of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas
Nine black students enrolled into an all white school creating a key step into ending segregation -
Greensboro Sit-In
Four African American college students sat down in a restaurant and their service was declined. When asked to leave, they refused. This started a chain of protests. -
Formation of SNCC
Studen Nonviolent Coordinating Committee -
Boynton v. Virginia
Case where an African American student was trespassing on an white only restaurant. -
Freedom Riders
Civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States -
James Meredith enrolls in Ole Miss
James Meredith was the first African American to enroll at Ole Miss creating lots of chaos and protests -
Birmingham Protests
Movement organized by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to bring attention to the integration efforts of African Americans in Birmingham, Alabama. -
March on Washington
A march in Washington for jobs and freedom -
Malcolm X leads the Nation of Islam
Said whites were not to be trusted and helped the African Americans to be proud of themselves -
24th Amendment Passed
Prohibiting any poll tax in elections for federal officials. -
Freedom Summer
Volunteer campaign in the United States to attempt to register as many African-American voters as possible in Mississippi. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. -
Malcolm X assassinated
Malcolm X was killed before he was gong to give a speech in New York -
Selma March
Three protest marches along the 54-mile highway from Selma, Alabama to the state capital of Montgomery. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War, including literacy tests as a prerequisite to voting. -
Black Panthers Founded
Revolutionary black nationalist and socialist organization active in the United States -
MLK Jr. assassinated
The assassination of Martin Luther King Jr in his hotel -
Civil Rights Act of 1968
Defines housing discrimination as the “refusal to sell or rent a dwelling to any person because of his race, color, religion, or national origin”. -
Robert F. Kennedy assassinated
The assassination of Robert F. Kennedy in the ambassador hotel
