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Brown v. Board of Education
NAACP combined five cases from South Carolina, Virginia, Kansas, Delaware, and District of Columbia into one case for the supreme court. The court decided 9 to zero that blacks being separate but equal was wrong. Many of the black students would never go to school with the whites. -
Murder of Emmett Till
Emmett Till was accused for whistling at a white woman. Three days later Roy Bryant and others were found in the water with their eye detached, ear cut off, barb wire-wrapped around his neck, and weighted down by a 75 pound of cotton gin in. -
Rosa Parks and the Bus Boycott
Rosa parks was arrested for refusing to move to the back of the bus . She was fined $10. Martin Luther King Jr and the church sent cut flyers to boycott the bus system on December 5th. The buses then ran empty for 381 days. The Supreme Court then ruled bussed had to let black people ride. -
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
This was a meting consisting of black church pastors to coordinate events for their people. Martin Luther King Jr was elected the 1st president. This group used a nonviolent strategy. They also registered blacks to vote, provide better jobs, and they opposed Vietnam war. -
Little Rock 9
This event involved the NAACP and nine black students. It took place in Little Rock Arkansas. The nine students wanted to go to the white school, but the Governor called the national guard to stop them. However, president Eisenhower ended up calling in 1,200 military men to escort them from home to class. In 1959 all schools were fully integrated -
Greensboro Sit ins
This event involved four college students in Greensboro, North California. They went to Woolworth’s to buy items. They continued to go sit at the lunch counter, but were refused service. They stayed, and kept coming back to do the same thing. The amount of students ended up growing to 1,000 in the span of a couple days. -
Freedom Riders
436 individuals and 60 separate freedom rules started in Washington D.C to the Deep South to desegregate bus stations, diners, and hotels. The diverse group of volunteers arrived in Anniston Alabama but were blocked by the KKK. Tires were slashes, fire bombed, busses burned and beat town after town. -
March on Washington
In Washington D.C, 250,000 people marched. It was a very peaceful and respectful protest for jobs and freedom. This is when MLK gave his “I have a dream” speech. -
Civil Rights Act(1964)
Lyndon B Johnson and Martin Luther King enabled the federal government to prevent racial discrimination based on race, color, religion, or national origin in public businesses or facilities. -
Assassination of Malcom X
In the Audubon Ballroom in New York, a civil rights leader wanted blacks people to believe in themselves and start their own businesses. He was killed by Thomas Hagan, and was shot 21 times. -
Selma to Montgomery Marches (Bloody Sunday)
600 black marchers wanted to walk fifty four miles to Montgomery to register to vote. However, when they got to Edmond Bridge troopers brutally beat them as they arrived. -
Voting Rights Act (1965)
This act prohibited any racial discrimination in voting. It was put in place by Lyndon B. -
Assassination of Martin Luther King
He was assassinated after attending a protest in Memphis Tennessee. Martin went back to his motel, and got shot on the lower side of his face with a Remington rifle. James Earl-the shooter- was sentenced to 99 years in prison. His death marked the end of the civil rights movement.