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Brown vs board of education
Separate but equal was wrong. The Supreme Court ruled that separating children in public schools on the basis of race was unconstitutional. The court declared that racial segregation in public schools violated the equal protection clause of the fourteenth amendment. -
Emmet till
A 14 year old black old black youth, was murdered in august 1955 in racial attacks that shocked the nation and provided a catalyst for emerging civil rights movement. -
SCLC
The southern Christian leadership conference (SCLC) is a civil right organization founded in 1957, as an offshoot of the Montgomery improvement association (MIA),which successfully staged a 381- day boycott of the Montgomery Alabama segregation bus system. -
Greensboro
4 college students sat down at a lunch counter at Woolworths to be served. They were refused service. Continue to sit in and other joined, the protest spread to other towns. Forced change. -
Freedom riders
2 weeks bus trip to the Deep South, to deliberately violate jimcrowlaws. It was organized by core the buses were burned and riders beaten by the kkk. Mlk becomes a strong leader talking with jfk. -
March on Washington
March on Washington for jobs and freedom was to aduocate for the civil and economic rights of African Americans. 25,000 people were in attendance at the Lincoln memorial. MLK was the last to speak , and gave his” I have a dream speech. 70-80% of marchers were black it helped to pass the civil rights acts of 1964. -
Civil right act
-Can not be refused service.
-forbids employers and labor unions to discriminate against any person on grounds of race, color, religion, sex, physical disability or age in job related matters.
-prohibits discrimination against race, color, religion, national origin, sex, or physical disability. -
March on Selma / Bloody Sunday
600 students March from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama to get the right to vote. They walked 54 miles and were stopped at the bridge. Seen on national television. LBJ order the passage of 1965 voting right law. 2nd March took place March 21-24 days with thousands marching. -
Rosa parks
Bus boycott in Alabama. Rosa parks invigorated the struggle for racial equality when she refused to give up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama. -
Little Rock nine
The first nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock central high school. Nine ordinary teenagers walked out of their homes and stepped up to the front lines in the battle for civil rights for all Americans.