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Congress of Racial Equality Founded
An organization founded in 1942 that was dedicated to civil rights to African Americans through a through reformed nonviolent action -
Dodgers Hire Jackie Robinson
Jackie Robinson would become one of the greatest baseball players in the history of the game. In 1944, however, he was a lieutenant in the army, stationed at Fort Hood, Texas. Leaving the base one day, he got on a military bus and took a seat up front. The driver ordered him to move to the back, but Robinson refused. When he got off at his stop, he was arrested. -
Brown v Board of Education
Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren delivered the unanimous ruling in the landmark civil rights case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. State-sanctioned segregation of public schools was a violation of the 14th amendment and was therefore unconstitutional. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
A boycott that effected the bus systems in Alabama and was started by the arrest of Rosa Parks. -
Integration of Central High School
in a key event of the American Civil Rights Movement, nine black students enrolled at formerly all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in September 1957, testing a landmark 1954 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that declared segregation in public schools unconstitutional. The court had mandated that all public schools in the country be integrated “with all deliberate speed” in its decision related to the groundbreaking case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka. -
First Lunch counter Sit-in
David Richmond, Franklin McCain, Ezell Blair Jr., and Joseph McNeil leave the Woolworth in Greensboro, N.C., where they initiated a lunch-counter sit-in to protest segregation (No photographers were allowed into the store on the first day of protest.) -
A Campaign in Birmingham
The Birmingham campaign, or Birmingham movement, was a movement organized in early 1963 by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) to bring attention to the integration efforts of African Americans in Birmingham, Alabama. -
March On Washington
The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, the March on Washington, or The Great March on Washington, was held in Washington, D.C. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Pub.L. 88–352, 78 Stat. 241, enacted July 2, 1964) is a landmark civil rights and US labor law in the United States that outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. -
Black Panther Party Founded
Black Power: group of activists that were not focused on nonviolent protesting
SNCC: Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
-blacks and the Nation of Islam were influenced by the leaders Malcom X, Huey Newton, and Bobby Steale
-were okay with violence
-wanted to make a change
-developed a 10 point platform to achieve their plan -
Watts Riot + Kerner Commission
The National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, known as the Kerner Commission after its chair, Governor Otto Kerner, Jr. of Illinois, was an 11-member commission established by President Lyndon B. Johnson in Executive Order 11365 -
Swan v. Charlotte Mecklenburg Board of Education
desegregation: end the separation of people by race
-School and the black students who are being bussed to the school
-Bussing is a way for schools to desegregate -
Regents of the University of California v Bakke
In Regents of University of California v. Bakke, the Court ruled unconstitutional a university's use of racial "quotas" in its admissions process, but held that affirmative action programs could be constitutional in some circumstances.
