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Brown vs Board of Education
A landmark U.S Supreme Court decision that struck down the “separate but equal” doctrine and outlawed the ongoing segregation in school -
Emmit till
14 year old kid was killed and caused a spark in the upsurge of activism and resistance that became known as the civil rights movement -
Rosa parks and bus boycott
The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a civil rights protest during which African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery, Alabama, to protest segregated seating. The boycott took place from December 5, 1955, to December 20, 1956, and is regarded as the first large-scale U.S. demonstration against segregation. -
SCLC
Southern Christian leadership conference. Non sectarian American agency that coordinated and assist local organization working for full equal of African American -
Little Rock 9
The first African American student to enter Little Rock’s central high school. It was started by black people . First black people high school. -
Greensboro 4
This is where non violent protest would go . They would go to stores suck as Woolworth and now international civil rights center -
student nonviolent coordinating committee (sncc) and freedom summer
Project or the Mississippi Summer Project, was a volunteer campaign in the United States launched -
Freedom riders
Group fo white and African American civil rights activist who participated bus trip through the American south in 1961to protest segregation bus terminal -
March on Washington
The March on Washington was a massive protest march that occurred in August 1963, when some 250,000 people gathered in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. Also known as the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, the event aimed to draw attention to continuing challenges and inequalities faced by African Americans a century after emancipation. -
Civil rights act
1964, Congress passed Public Law 88-352 (78 Stat. 241). The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin. Provisions of this civil rights act forbade discrimination on the basis of sex, as well as, race in hiring, promoting, and firing. -
March on Selma/ bloody sunday
March 7, 1965, state and local police used billy clubs, whips, and tear gas to attack hundreds of civil rights activists beginning a march from Selma, Alabama, to the state capitol in Montgomery. -
voting rights
The Voting Rights Act of 1965, signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson, aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote as guaranteed under the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution