brown vs the board of eduvation

brown vs education

Dec 9, 1952

this was the court case to end segregation in public schools

emett till murder

1955

14 yo boy in money missisippi murderee for talking to a white woman working in a store the men who commited the murder were not charged and were found innocent the mother wanted a open casket funeral

rosa parks montgomery bus boycott

Dec 5, 1955

when rosa parks were asked to get out of a seat to accommodate white people and she refused it set off a boycott that would allow blacks to sit anywhere theyd like on the bus