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Brown vs the Board of Education
Courtcase that made segregation unconstitutional. -
Little Rock Nine
nine african americans enroll in Little rock central high school. the little rock crisis follows this, when students were prevented from entering racially segregated schools. -
Rosa Parks
She was asked to the back of the bus when it got crowded.The bus driver demanded she move and still she refused.She was arrested later for disurbing the peace. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Sparked by Rosa Parks and Claudette colvin stories, train reporter E.D Nixon and Professor Jo Ann Robinsonsuggested a boycott on busses and so it began, word got around and eventually there were fliers and news repots that african americans were boycotting busses eventually enough to were it caused economic stress.boycotters organized carpools for them. Soon presure increased and the court ruled the case of browder vs bayle. and it was declared the busses be desegregated. -
Southern Christian Leadership Confrence
MLK invited 60 african american leaders and priest to Ebenezer Church.and the goal of this organization was to help desegregate bus sytems all across the south -
Woolworth sit in
four students go to five and dime owned by greensboro woolworth sit at whites only. -
Freedom rides
13 civil rights activst organized a seriese of freedom rides to protest segregation. -
james merideth
james meridith the first to segregate ole miss -
bull connor exposed
durring the birmingham campain connor used high presure water hoses and police dogs on african americans -
letters from birmingham jail
MLK wrote a letter from jail in responce to a newspaper article that called protest " unwise and untimely". -
MLK gives i have a dream speech
MLK marches on washington to licoln memorial and gives speech. starts with the emancipation proclamation freed slaves in 1825 hundred years later negros still not free". considered high point in the march -
24t amendment
this amendment made it illegal to deny any citizen the right to vote -
civil rights act of 1964
outlawed discimination race, color, religion, gender, or national origin.
