civil rights

By dbechtold1520

  • Brown against the board of education

    The decision overturns the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson ruling that sanctioned "separate but equal" segregation of the races, ruling that "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal." It is a victory for NAACP attorney Thurgood Marshall, who will later return to the Supreme Court as the nation's first black justice.

  • Montgmery Bus Boycott

    Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat in the front of the bus to a white man and her and Martin Luther King Jr. started a huge boycott against the bus system and african Americans began walking and rididng bikes everywhere

  • Little Rock nine

    nine African American students were integrated into the Central High School in Little Rock Arkansas and presiden Eisenhower sent in para troopers to help stop violence against them

  • sit-ins

    Four black students from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College begin a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter. Although they are refused service, they are allowed to stay at the counter. The event triggers many similar nonviolent protests throughout the South. Six months later the original four protesters are served lunch at the same Woolworth's counter. Student sit-ins would be effective throughout the Deep South in integrating parks, swimming pools, and theaters.

  • March on Washington

    More than 250,000 civil rights demonstrators march on Washington, DC, where Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "I Have A Dream" speech

  • civil rights act

    landmark piece of civil rights legislation in the United States that outlawed major forms of discrimination against racial, ethnic, national and religious minorities, and women. It ended unequal application of voter registration requirements and racial segregation in schools, at the workplace and by facilities that served the general public

  • the Watts Riots

    more than 100 riots occured in Los Angeles black suburbs resulting in looting and 34 deaths

  • Death of Martin Luther King Jr.

    Martin Luther King, at age 39, is shot as he stands on the balcony outside his hotel room. Escaped convict and committed racist James Earl Ray is convicted of the crime.