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Emmett Till’s Murder
In August 1953 Emmett till went to Alabama on a trip with his mom to visit his uncle when we went down there we went into a store and cat called the lady working when Emmett got home two men showed up to his house and beat him to death and throw him over a bridge Violence by opposition -
Little Rock Nine Crisis
The Little Rock Nine was a group of nine African-American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. Their enrollment was followed by the Little Rock Crisis -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
a 13-month mass protest that ended with the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that segregation on public buses was unconstitutional. -
Civil Rights Act of 1957
established the Civil Rights Section of the Justice Department and empowered federal prosecutors to obtain court injunctions against interference with the right to vote -
Freedom Rides
Freedom Rides, in U.S. history, a series of political protests against segregation by Blacks and whites who rode buses together through the American South in 1961 -
Greensboro Sit-In
This is where four friends sat at a drugstore. the beginning of the student-led phase -
Albany Campaign
The Albany Movement was a desegregation and voters' rights coalition formed in Albany, Georgia, in November 1961. This movement was founded by local black leaders and ministers, as well as members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee -
Integration of the University of Mississippi
Meredith became the first African-American student to be enrolled at the University of Mississippi and attended his first class -
Birmingham Movement
The Birmingham campaign, also known as the Birmingham movement or Birmingham Confrontation, was an American movement organized in early 1963 by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference -
Mississippi Freedom Summer
Freedom Summer, also known as the Freedom Summer Project or the Mississippi Summer Project, was a volunteer campaign in the United States launched in June 1964 -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin. Provisions of this civil rights act forbade discrimination on the basis of sex -
Assassination of Malcolm X
former member of the Nation of Islam who assassinated Malcolm X in 1965. For a period he also went by the name Talmadge X -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is a landmark piece of federal legislation in the United States that prohibits racial discrimination in voting -
Fair Housing Act
makes it illegal to discriminate in housing because of race, color, religion, sex, national origin -
Assassination of Medgar Evars
rights activist named Medgar Evers had just come home after a meeting of the NAACP. As he began the short walk up to his single-story rambler, the bullet struck Evers in the back
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