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Brown vs Board of Education
Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. The decision overturned the Plessy v. Ferguson decision of 1896, which allowed state-sponsored segregation, insofar as it applied to public education. Handed down on May 17, 1954, the Warren Court's unanimous -
Rosa Park arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat
Rosa Parks was riding the public bus when a white man walked on the bus and told her to move. She didn't move and was taken to jail for refusing. All blacks in the city wanted unsegregated buses and had a long bus boycott. -
Montgomery Bus
In Montgomery Alabama the supreme court ruled that there should be no segregated buses. The blacks of the community boycotted for almost a year and then the law was passed. -
Civil Rights act of 1957
President Eisenhower signed the civil rights act of 1957 on September 9, 1957. It gave African Americans the right to vote. -
Events at Little Rock, Arkansas
In Little Rock, 9 black students tried to attend a all white school. Angry white students and parents formed a mob and kept them from going the first day. The president found out and order U.S. solders to escort the kids in and protect them. Which lead to them attending the school for the rest of the year. -
Sit-In
In Greensboro, North Carolina black college students arranged sit-ins at many of the white only lunch counters. -
Attack of the Freedom Riders
Freedom Riders where people of all race but mostly black that road buss to places to show integration.They went to city's and got brutally beaten by whites that digressed. The CORD and SNCC helped the freedom riders. Freedom Riders consisted of all races white and black. -
James Meredith enrolls at Ole Miss
James Meredith was a black student that passed high school and wanted to enroll at Ole Miss. At the time the college has been all white and they still did. The governor of Mississippi didn't want James Meredith to join and even went to the school and blocked him from registering.The government had national guards go and make sure that he registered. James did and graduated after it all. -
Medger Evers Assassinated
Medgar Evers was a 37 year old civil rights activist and a field secretary for the NAACP. Evers was shot in the back and killed. -
The March on Washington
The purpose of the march was to gain rights for African Americans. Dr. King gave his famous "I have a dream" speech. -
Poll Tax
Poll taxes were outlawed in all federal elections every where. -
March to Selma
It was a march to register black voters in the south. They were met by violent resintence by state and local authorites. Result was about 300 out of 15,000 in selma manged to register. King won the Nobel peace Prize. -
Night rider
In Varnado, Louisiana Oneal Moore a black deputy was killed buy a nightrider. -
Death of Samuel Younge JR
Samuel Younge JR is a student civil rights activist that was killed in a dispute in Tukegee, Alabama. -
Death of Benjamin Brown
A civil rights worker in Jackson, Mississippi was killed when police fired on protesters. -
Thurgood Marshall first black Supreme Court Justice
Before he was Supreme court justice he was a counsel for NAACP and won many cases to fighting against racism. It was a monumental moment that he was the first black supreme court justice and won brown vs board of education case where the supreme court ended racial segregation in public schools. -
The Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King
Dr. King was standing on the 2nd floor balcony of Lorraine motel with other men from the SCLC when he was shot. His death had a large impact on whites and African Americans because he brought both races together.
