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Brown v board of education
In 1954 the browns moved to a new town. When Oliver brown tried to enroll his daughter in to elementary school they were rejected because of there skin. In turn this made little Linda brown have a two hour commute to and from school everyday. Oliver was not happy and called the NAACP to fight the school in segregation. In a trail that last years Oliver won! And in result overturned Plessy v Ferguson. -
The murder of Emmett Till
On august 28 1955, 14 year old Emmett was visiting family in small town Mississippi. He was accused for whistling at a white woman in a public place. In turn Emmett was lynched. He was also servealy beaten. A couple of days later they found Emmett floating in the Tallachie River. His murders Roy Bryant and Milam were trailed by a all white jury and even committed to the mureder but they were still found not guilty. -
Rosa Parks
On December 1st 1955, in Montgomery Alabama. A woman by the name of Rosa parks was sitting in the middle of the bus. When a white man didn’t have a seat. Rosa was forced to give up her seat or go to jail. This starred the biggest boycott in American history. It lasted 381 days. Only ending because the Supreme Court ruled that bus segregation was unconstitutional. This was a big movement in civil right’s history -
Southern Christian leadership conference
On January 10th 1957 The southern Christian leadership conference was born (SCLC). Founded by Martin Luther King jr. the SCLC helped organize and plan many nonviolent protests. Protests such as the Montgomery bus boycott and the March On Washington. But the biggest goal the SCLC had was to help African Americans become registered voters and to end segregation. -
Little Rock Nine
On September 4th 1957, a group of nine students in Little Rock Arkansas made history. These 9 students were going to be the first desegregated students in an American school. These 9 face lots of challenges with armed military soldiers escorting the 9 to school everyday. In the end only 3 graduated from the same high school. But the Little Rock 9 made history. -
Greensboro sit ins
On February 1st 1960. A group of four freshman college students in Greensboro North Carolina sat at a white only lunch counter. At first the owner refused to serve the 4 and the owner closed the store quickly. Two days later 60 students showed up the the next day 300 students. By the end over 70,000 people participated in the sit in. Which were supposed to be peaceful end up with the whites beating the blacks out of the chairs. Finally in July the lunch counter served blacks. -
Ruby Bridges
On November 16th, 1960, a 6-year-old girl by the name of Ruby Bridges integrated to an all-white school in New Orleans. Bridges received lots of hate despite being in 1st grade at the time. Ruby also had 4 United States Marshal to help her get to and from school every single day. It wasn't easy for Ruby, but she still went to school every day. Proving everyone who disliked her wrong. -
Freedom Riders
In May of 1961, a group of people named the freedom riders came about. There main goal was to help overturn Jim crow laws such as Plessy vs Furgeson and Morgan v Virgina. By helping desegregate busses in the deep south of America. they were brought together by the congress of racial equality. The first freedom riders were a group of 13 7 white and 6 black. eventually the freedom riders got arrested and the first jail no bail policy came about, but they did pave the way for desegrated busses. -
March on Washington
The march on Washington was a massive protest that included over 250,000 people, and the fight for civil rights. These people gathered around the Lincoln memorial to hear Martin Luther King Jr. present his famous "I Have a Dream" speech. -
Civil Rights Act
In 1964 President John F Kenndy helped, set up the bill that Loynd B Jhonson singed, known as the civil rights act which stated that. Put an end discrimination based on race, color, religion, or national origin in the United States. basically reversing Jim crow Laws -
Assassination of Malcom X
In manthattn 1965, Malcom X was murederd. Malcom was a civil rights activist and American American minister. Malcolm was just 39 years old when he was shot during his speech at the Audubon Ballroom in Manhattan. This led his wife daughter an two unborn twins alone. -
Bloody Sunday
In 1965 600 people went on a freedom march from Selma Alabama, to Montgomery Alabama. This peaceful march ended up with at least 400 injured and 1 dead. The march was doing well until, they get to the Edmund Pettus Bridge, where all hell broke loose . Shortly after the voting rights acted was passed. -
Voting Rights Act
In 1965 the 89th Congress passed the voting rights act. Which allowed people of all skin color to vote. The day after it was passed president Johnson singed it. -
The assassination of MLK jr.
It was a beautiful day in April 1968 when disaster stuck. Martin Luther King was standing at his balcony at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis. He was officially pronounced dead at 7:05. Leaving his wife a kids without him.