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board V Board of Education
Brown V Board of Education was one of the cornerstone of the civil right movement. It helped establish "Separate-but-equal" for education and other services. It separated children in public schools on the basis of race was unconstitutional. -
Murder of Emmet Till
14 year old boy from Chicago, visiting family in Mississippi. Accused of whistling at a white women. Roy Bryant and Jw Milan kidnapped, beat, shot, killed and then threw Emmet's body in the river. Maime Till, Emmet's mother has an open casket funeral to show everyone what those two men did to her son. Both men stood trial and were found innocent but later on confessed the murder. -
Bus Boycott
In Montgomery, Alabama Rosa parks was arrested because she did not want to get out of her seat in the bus. She was fined 10 dollars. Martin Luther King would later put up flyers to boycott the bus systems. African Americans would then refuse to ride the buses to protest segregated seating. This was a major protest in the civil rights movement. -
Souther Christian Leadership
Started after the bus boycott to organize protest. Martin Luther King was elected president because of that. They had churches to help organize black events and people were also able to vote there. Some events that were organized was the Greensboro Sit ins, march on Washington and Selma. -
Little Rock Nine/ Arkansas
This event was to test the Brown V Board of Education decision. Nine students, was supposed to be 10 but one backed out, were vetted to undergo this test. Once the day came to go to school the students were harassed badly. Airborn 101 was ordered to escort the students to class every day. -
Greensboro Sit ins
Four college students sat down at a lunch counter in Wodworths to be served. The students were refused to be served. They kept going there and did the same thing everyday. Later on many other African Americans joined them it was about 1,000 in other towns. All Wodworths stores were losing a lot of money and they were forced to serve black people -
Freedom Riders
Two week bus trip to the deep south, to deliberately violate Jim Crow laws. it was organized by Core. The buses were burned with fire bombed and riders were beaten by the KKK. This happened town after town in total it was 436 people in 60 different freedom riders. -
March on Washington
For jobs and freedom was to educate for the civil and economic rights of African Americans. 250,000 people were in attendance at the Lincoln Memorial. MLK was the last to speak, he gave his famous "I have a dream" speech. 70-80% of marchers were black. it helped pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964. -
Civil Rights Act (1964)
People with businesses can not refuse service. This forbids employers and labor unions to discriminate against any person on grounds of race, color, religion, sex, physical disability or age in a job related matter. Helps black people have way more rights than to what they had before. They will now have a reason to fight back when they are being mistreated. -
Assassination of Malcom X
Malcom X was a civil rights leader. He was a part of the Nation of Islam, he was more violent then MLK. He wanted to do motivate blacks to start their own businesses. He ended up being non violent but it was too late and was shot and killed. He was shot 21 times. -
Selma to Montgomery Marches (bloody sunday)
600 students march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama to get the right to vote. They walked 54 miles and were stopped at the bridge. Seen on national television. LBJ order the passage of 1965 voting rights law. 2nd march took place March 21-24 with 25,000 marchers including MLK. People were brutally beaten on the bridge by troops. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
One of the most comprehensive pieces of the legislative US history. Blacks were registering to vote and being elected to public office. It ended any discrimination in voting. -
Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr
MLK was in a protest in Memphis. He had gone back to his motel room and was later shot. He was shot in the lower side of his face. After his death the Civil rights moment had come to an end.