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Plessy v. Ferguson
All started when a black man got on a white train and was told to move. This was taken to court to decide that it is okay to segrigate blacks from whites. It was a seven to one vote on this case. Which led to segregation legal all around the country. But then was repealed during Brown vs. Board. -
Brown v. Board of Education
This was the case in court where it was stated that the separation of Blacks and Whites in different schools was unconstitutional. The court did rule that this was unconstitutional. Not all the states in the U.S. followed the new law that schools could not be segregated. -
Emmett Till
Emmett till said “bye baby” to a white women. Later that day a man came to find him and killed him for saying that to a young white girl. This case was brought to trial and the man was innocent by jury. About 4 months later, the men that did kill him confessed. They could not be charged though because of the law “double jeopardy” -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Blacks were to sit at the back of the bus, on all public busses. If the bus was too full, and a white person got on, then the blacks would have to move out of their seats. Blacks eventually boycotted the busses and the company lost a great deal of business. Then congress decided that blacks at the back was unconstitutional -
Little Rock School desegregation
It was ruled that there could no longer be segregation in school. But in arkansas they did not follow this. They still had segregated schools. Then 9 black students went to the school and the governor send the national guard to not let them in. Then the prez told him he had to so he withdrew the guard, then the whites rioted when the blacks entered school. In school each student had their own military bodyguard. -
Sit-ins in Greensboro/Nashville
Groups of blacks were protesting their rights. They would go into public white and black stores, restaurants, ect. They would sit at the places marked whites only, sitting there quietly and not saying a word. They would be brutally attacked by cops, and other white males. It then got so big that almost every black was involved in a sit-in and every jail was being filled. -
March on Birmingham
There were black marches that consisted of students that took off school. Responding the police officers sprayed the blacks with very powerful water hoses, and dogs.They then came to a conclusion that they would take away segregation in restaurants and start to hire blacks. Then the whites started to abuse blacks, setting off bombs and the blacks started to riot. -
March on Washington
A march by mostly blacks that were doing something to show they wanted their freedom. They wanted to be united and gain power over the white race so that they could be equal. This is when Martin Luther king gave his "I have a dream" speech. After the march Congress passes the 1964 Civil Rights Act. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Outlawed major forms of discrimination against racial, ethnic, national and religious minorities. It ended unequal rights for voters, and segrigation in schools, work place, ect. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Would now outlaw blacks not being able to vote. Not letting blacks vote went against the 15th amendment. Now you had to pass a literacy test in order to vote, which was the new way of keeping blacks from the voting polls. -
Martin Luther King Assassinated
He was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee on April 4, 1968. He was killed because he was such a big idol for african americans and brought a great deal of new rights to them that they had been fighting for. Whites hated him because he was so popular and was a great speaker for the blacks.