-
Brown vs Board
It is a Supreme Court case ends segregation. The vote was 9-0 or unamious. Linda brown who had to commute to go to black school, where a white school was blocks away. It is a great decision, however there was a lot of vidence after the ruling. -
Emmet Till
14 year old from Chicago, visiting family in Mississippi. Accused of whistling at a white women, Roy Bryant and Jew Milan kidnapped, beat, shit, killed, and than threw emmets body in the river. Maine till, emmets mother has an open casket funeral. Both men stood trial, and found not guilty. -
Rosa Parks and Bus Boycott
Rosa parks of Montgomery, Alabama. Rosa refused to move, she was arrested. Dec 5, a boycott of buses will last 381 days. None violent protest a start more civil rights movement. -
Southern Christian leadership conference
Started after the bus boycott to organize protest. Martin Luther king was elected president. Organized protest around the south to coordinate events. Such Greensboro sir ins, March on Washington and seem, after mlk’s assassinatiin it declined, Sri,l exists today. -
Little Rock nine/Arkansas
Testing brown vs board of education decision. 9 students were vetted to under go this est. airborne 101 escorted students to class. Following years all public schools closed 1958 -
Greensboro sit in
4 college students sat down at a lunch counter at Woolworths to be served. They were refused service continued to sit in and others joined. The protest spread to other towns to force change. -
Student nonviolent coordinating committee and freedom summer
Youth group of students remained fiercely independent of MLK and SCLC, generating their own projects and strategies. The two organizations worked side by side throughout the early years of the civil rights movement. This group was the second half of the freedom riders and were a part of the March to Selma. -
Freedom riders
2 week bus trip to seep south, to deliberately violate Jim Crow laws. It was organized by CORE. The buses were burned and riders beaten by the KKK. Nov 1, 1961 white and colored signs are removed from bus stations, train stations and lunch counters -
March on Washington
250000 people were in attendance to at the Lincoln memorial. MLK was the last to talk, he gave his I have a dream speech. 70-80% of marchers were black -
Civil right act of 1964
Can not be refused service. Forbids employers and labor unions to discrimate. Prohibits discrimination against race, color, religion. -
March on Selma
600 students March from Selma to Montgomery Alabama. They walked 54 miles to get the right to vote. 25000 marched including MLK -
Voting rights
One of the most comprehensive pieces of legislation in the US history. Blacks were registering to vote and being elected to public office.