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Little Rock Nine Permitted into High School
This was a group of nine students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School, after which a crisis ensued in which they were barred from entering the school, which was eventually overturned by the ruling of the supreme court in the Brown vs. The Board of Eduaction case. -
Brown vs. the Board of Education
This case was a landmark case in which the ruling was passed that separate facilities are inherently unequal, overturning the previous ruling. -
Rosa Parks Arrested
Rosa Parks was arrested for civil disobedence for not yeilding to the Alabama law stating that people of color must relinquish thier seat on a public bus to white people. This event sparked the Montgomery bus boycott that lasted 381 days. -
Black Panthers Formed
This was a party formed in favor of the black power movement. Originally formed to protect ethnic neighborhoods from police brutality. -
SCLC Formed
The SCLC, otherwise known as the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, was a civil right organization founded by Martin Luther King Jr. after the Montgomery Bus Boycott -
SNCC Founded
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Commitee was created after a wave of sit-ins was sparked by a couple of black college students. The purpose of this organization was to passively fight opression through nonviolent means such as sit-ins, -
James Merredith Admitted to the University of Mississippi
This began when the NAACP filed suit that Merredith was rejected soley because of his ethnicity, which ended in a ruling that he was to be permitted. Next he was barred from entering the school by Ross Barnett, and finally admitted a fed days later. -
Letter from the Birmingham Jail
This letter was written in in response to criticisms he recived during the Birmingham campaign. He was arrested for violating alabama's law prohibiting large public demonstrations. -
John F. Kennedy Assassinated
This event took place in Dealey Plaza in Dallas Texas. It was later determined that Lee Harvey Oswasd was the sole shooter who committed the assassination. -
24th Amendment Passed
This amendment prohibited conditions on being able to vote, thus wiping out the Jim Crowe Laws. This allowed people of ethnicities easier ability to attain the right to vote -
Freedom Summer
This was a push to get as many African Americans registeres as voters in the state of Mississippi. This was met by voilence on the part of the white population that wanted to keep thier social orders in a somewhat stasis, avoiding change.The KKK conducted thier opression mainly through voilence and arrests. -
Three CORE Members Disappear in Mississippi
These three people were working with the Freedom Summer movement, and suddenly disappeared, sparking public outrage. They were found dead a few days later and it has been concluded that they were targets of the KKK. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964 Passed
This act outlawed major forms of racial descrimination, such as that in the workplace or being able to take into account race before hiring someone. It also gave all races equal right to facilities such as restaurants, hotels, and public transportation. -
Malcom X Assassinated
Malcom X was a Civil Rights Activist, who took an accomplish by any means necessary approach toward his goals. He often used voilence in accomplishing his goals. He was assassinated by white supremacists. -
March on Selma
These marches from Selma to Montgomery were in response to the voting rights movement. The first march resulted in an attack from authorities with clubs and tear gas. -
Watts Riots Begin
This was a six day riot that occured in the Watts neighborhood in Los Angeles over racial restrictions that prevented blacks and hispanics from buying property in some areas. -
Detroit Riots
Also known as the 12th street Riot, this was one of the deadliest riots to occure, percipitating from police confrontations with local patrons. -
Martin Luther King Jr. Assassinated
He was assassinated at the Lorrain hotel at the age of 39 by James Earl Ray. Due to the fact that he was a black civil rights activist with very persuasive speeches and the power to motivate he constantly recieved death threats, which eventually came to fruition. -
I Have a Dream
This was a speech given by Martin Luther King Jr. which proclaimed his views in respect to racial segregation, while referncing the Emancipation Proclamation.
