Civil Rights

By NinjaBabe4

  • Student Strike at Moton High School

    Students at a small high school spent a few months planning a strike to protest poor school fascilities. The principale threatened the students with expulsion, but they continued their strike and met with the NAACP. They collectively sued the school for integration and a better educational environment.

  • Brown v. Board of Education

    The Supreme Court ruled that segregated schools are unconstitutional. This overturned the case of Plessy v. Ferguson.

  • Emmett Till Murder

    A young black boy whistled at a white woman on the street and was killed by two white men lter that night, He was beaten and shot in the head, and his mother had a public, open casket funeral to show the public how awful it was. This brought attention to the Civil Rights issues in Mississippi.

  • Montgomery Bus Boycotts

    This was a 13 month bus boycott that began with Rosa Parks' arrest. It ended up being taken to the Supreme Court, where they ruled that segregation on public buses was unconstitutional.

  • Massisve Resistance Declared

    Senator Walter F. George delivered the Southern Manifesto in Congress following the Brown v. Board of Education decision. Signed by 101 of the South's Congressional members, this document denounced the ruling in the Brown case and promised to use "massive resistance" to prevent integration.

  • Little Rock Nine

    Following Brown v. Board of Education, schools in the South were forced to integrate. As the first step towards integration, nine black students in Little Rock, Arkansas were enrolled to a previously all white high school. The students were met with contempt from the citizens of Little Rock, and had to be escorted to school by members of the National Guard.

  • Greensboro Sit-Ins

    Ezell Blair Jr., David Richmond, Joseph McNeil and Franklin McCain launched the Greensboro sit-ins. They would enter restaurants or other segregated places and sit until they were given service from the all-white staff. In just two months, the sit-in movement spread to 54 cities in nine states.

  • Freedom Riders

    Jim Crow laws prohibited blacks from using all white public transportation. Once Congress outlawed Jim Crow laws and passed laws for integration, the Freedom Riders entered “whites” and “colored” areas contrary to where they were supposed to go and ate together at segregated lunch counters. They met little resistance along the way until Rockville, S.C. where an angry mob beat the Freedom Riders as they pulled into the station. They continuned until May 1961.

  • Integration of Ole Miss

    At University of Mississippi in Oxford, James Meredith attempted to integrate the college by registering to attend, causing extremely violent riots which ended in deaths for 2 civilians and numerous injured. The case was brought to federal court vs. the segregationalist stae government, eventually ruling for Meredith, allowing her to enroll in classes and eventually graduate in August of 1963.

  • March on Birmingham

    March of students walking down to the mayor to talk about the segregation in their city. Police became violent, spraying them with fire hoses and releasing dogs on them.

  • March on Washington

    "I Have a Dream Speech", group of people marching to promote the Civil Rights Movement.

  • 24th Amendment Passes

    Ended the Poll Tax

  • Civil Rights Act of 1964

    Piece of legilation that outlawed major forms of discrimination.

  • Malcom X Assassinated

    African Americann religious leader was shot by Nation of Islam Members while giving his Organization of Afro-American Unity speech.

  • Voting Rights Act of 1965

    Outlawed discriminitory voting practices in the United States.

  • Black Power Movement Begins

    Movement among African Americans, emphasizing racial pride and to promote black interests. First was recognized as a concrete being in 1966.

  • Loving v. Virginia

    Unanimously said the Racial Integrity Act of 1924 was unconstitutional, overturned Pace v. Alabama (1883), and ended all racial restricted marriages in the United States.

  • Martin Luther King Assassinated

    Civil Rights leader shot by a snipr, instigating people to carry on his work in provoking rights for blacks and also made people think that a more violent approach was needed and that MLK's approach may have been too peaceful.