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Brown Vs Board of Education
On May 17, 1954 Justice Earl Warren delivered the case that state - sanctioned of public schools was violation of the 14th amendment. -
Murder of Emmett Till
Emmett was a 14 year old African American who was accused of offending a white women in her family's grocery store. -
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Montgomery Bus Boycott
It was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of the transit system. -
Formation of the SCLC
They hoped that this would help organize nonviolent protest efforts of local groups. The purpose was to help with civil and political rights. -
Little Rock Nine
This was a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. They were prevented from entering segregation by the Arkansas Governor. -
Founding of SNCC
It was formed by a college students and dedicated to overturn segregation in the South. -
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Woolworth's counter sit-ins in Greensboro
A group a nonviolent protests -
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Freedom Riders
13 freedom riders, 7 African Americans and 6 whites left in Washington, DC on a bus. -
Letter from Birmingham Jail
This letter defended the strategy of nonviolent resistance to racism. -
Assassination of Medgar Evers
He witnessed and was an evidence for the Emmett Till murder case. -
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
More than 200,000 demonstrators took part in the march to Washington for jobs and their freedom. -
Birmingham Church Bombing
It was an act of white supremacist terrorism which occured at the African American 16th street baptist church in Birmingham Alabama. -
Assassination of Malcolm X
Malcolm was an American muslim minister and human rights activist. He was shot while on stage during an Organization of Afro-American Unity meeting. -
March on Selma
When 600 people started a planned a march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. This was a demonstration
