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Brown v. Board of education
In Topeka, Kansas NAACP combined 5 cases from Kansas, South Carolina, Virginia, Delaware and Washington D.C., to the Supreme Court. The court decided a 9-10 that separate but equal is wrong. However many of these black students will never go to school with white students. -
Murder of Emmett Till
Accused of whistling at white women . Three days later Roy Bryant and others kidnapped Till and brutally murdered him. They dumped his body in the Tallahatchie River. Found him with his eyes detached, ear cut off, bar wire wrapped around his neck and weighed down by 75 pound contenting fan. -
Rosa parks and the bus boycott
In Montgomery Alabama Rosa is arrested for failing to more seats on the bus, she was fined $10. Martin Luther King Jr. And the church wended out flyers to the boycott and the bus system on December 5. The buses ran empty for 381 days. The Supreme Court ruled buses and had to let black ride the buses. -
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
I’m Atlanta, Georgia was a meeting of black church pastors to coordinate events for the black people. Martin Luther King was elected for the first president. This group used a non-violent strategy. The group also registered for blacks to vote, opposed. Vietman war provided better jobs for blacks. -
Little Rock 9
9 students wanted to go to the white school. The governors of Arkansas called out the national guard to stop them. The president Eisenhower calles in 1,200 military men to escort these students from home to class. In1959 all the schools fully integrated. -
Greensboro Sit ins
In Greenboro North Carolina 4 college students went to Woolworth’s to buy items. Then they went to go sit at the lunch counter. They are refused service and to 18 to leave but then stayed. Day after day they came back and did something. The amount of students grew over the days to 6000. -
Freedom Riders
A diverse group of volunteers from 39 states that were mostly college students. Arrived in the Anniston, Alabama blocked by the kkk. The riders were beaten so bad by a white mob that some sustained permanent injuries. The tires were slashed, fire bombed, nurses burned town after town. -
March on Washington
In Washington D.C. 250,000 people marched. It was peaceful and respectful protest for jobs and freedom. Martin Luther King gave his “I have a dream” speech. Martin Luther King was the speaker of the day -
Civil Rights Act
In Washington they enabled the federal government to prevent racial discrimination and segregation. Based on race, color, religion, or national origin. To provide business or public facilities. -
Assassination of Malcom X
Civil rights leader who was part of the Nation of Islam. He wanted black to believe in themselves. They started their own businesses. Malcom little was shot 21 times. Thomas Hagon was convicted to killing him. -
Selma to Montgomery Marches (Bloody Sunday)
In Selma, Alabama blacks wanted to walk 54 miles to Montgomery to register to vote. At the Edmond bridge troopers brutally beat them. They then went a second time and Martin Luther king Jr. joined them and as they walked the troopers moved and let them pass. -
Voting Rights Act
In Washington D.C. they enabled the rights of African Americans to register and vote. They banned tactics long designed to keep them from the polls. Now a federal matter not state. -
Assassination of Martin Luther King
Martin Luther King was shot and wounded. He was shot on the lower right side of his face and was shot with a Remington rifle. He was shot by standing on the second floor balcony outside his room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis Tennessee. He was later pronounced dead. James early rat was sentenced to 99 years. His death marks the end of the civil rights.