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Greensboro Sit ins
This was a nonviolent protests that happened in Woolworth's store much counter in Greensboro, North Carolina. Four African American College students sat down at a white only lunch counter and asked something but they refused to serve them. The faced harassment and physical violence and some even got arrested. This caught peoples attention and forced Woolworth's and other business to integrate their lunch counters. -
Brown vs Board of Education
The Brown v. Board of Education was in Kansas and also in South Carolina, Virginia, Delaware and District of Columbia. This was a Supreme Court case that was trying to declare racial segregation in public schools. This was brought by Oliver Brown and his daughter Linda Brown. It overturned Plessy V. Ferguson. The final decision was 9-0. -
Murder of Emmett Till
Emmet Till a 14 year old from Chicago went to go visit family members down in Mississippi. He went to go shop at a local store. It was reported that Emmet Till had whistled at Carolyn and later on was murdered by Roy Bryant and brother in law J.W Milan. Emmet Till was kidnapped, beaten, shot in the head, and they tied a large metal fan with barbed wire around his neck. They go to trial but later on they both confess to the murder. His mother had his funeral back at home in Chicago. -
Rosa Parks and the Bus Boycott
Rosa Parks was asked to get up from her seat but refused to get up. She was sitting in the colored section of the bus. She was later on arrested. Rosa Parks made in an impact on the bus boycott. Black citizens from Montgomery stayed off buses. -
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
The SCLC was an organization linked to the black churches. 60 black ministers were pivotal in organizing civil right activism. Martin Luther King Jr was elected president. They focused its non violent strategy on citizenships, schools and efforts to desegregate individual cities. It played key roles in the March on Washington in 1963 and the Voting Rights Campaign and March to Montgomery in 1965. -
Little Rock 9
The Little Rock nine was a group of nine African American students that lived in Little Rock, Arkansas. They became the first African American students to desegregate Little Rock Central High School. They went through verbal abuse and physical threat’s. -
Ruby Bridges
Ruby was six years old and she was one of the four students that got to take a really hard test to go to an all white school. She later on passed the test and she was escorted by the federal marshals to school everyday. She was the only student in the classroom with her one teacher. She ate lunch in the classroom and didn’t get to play outside with the other students. -
Freedom Riders
The freedom riders we’re white and African American civil rights activists. The protected segregated bus terminals. They tired to use white only restroom and lunch counters at bus stations in southern states. They were confronted by police officers and also violence from white protestors. -
March on Washington
Peaceful and respectful protects for jobs and freedom. Martin Luther King Jr gave his I have a dream speech. He gave his speech in Washington D.C. There was more than 250,000 people hearing him give his speech. It was his last speech of the day. Martin Luther King Jr was later on killed. -
Civil Rights Act
Enabled the federal government to prevent racial discrimination and segregation based on race, color, religion or national origin in private business and public facilities. -
Assassination of Malcom X
Malcolm X was born in Omaha, Nebraska on May 19,1925. He moved to bottom and he got arrested for stealing in 1946. He was in jail for 6 years. Once he got out of jail he joined the Nation of Islam. He became the most effective speaker and organizer. He left the Nation of Islam in 1964. He converted to orthodox Islam. The Nation of Islam made life threats towards him. They shot him to death at a rally in Harlem ballroom. -
Selma to Montgomery Marches (Bloody Sunday)
Hundreds of people in Selma, Alabama decided to march and protest voting rights for African Americans. There was around 600 marchers that were part of the protest. They ran into law enforcement at the Edmund Pettus Bridge. The police officers used tear gas, clubs and mounter officers to disperse the crowd. That resulted to many of the marchers getting injuries. -
Voting Rights Act
The voting act was signed eights days later after the Martin Luther King Jr led the march in Selma. President Lyndon B. Johnson announced to pass the federal voting rights act. The voting right is to ensure that no federal, state of local government could stop people from voting just because of their race or ethnicity. -
Assassination of Martin Luther King
Martin Luther King Jr played a big role in the civil rights movement. He was known for his famous speech “I have a dream.” He also won the Nobel peace prize. King was shot dead while standing on a balcony outside his second-floor room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.