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Brown v board of education
Brown v board of education was one of the cornerstone of the civil rights movement
It separated children in public schools on the basis of race -
Emmet till
14 year old boy from Chicago visiting family
Accused of whistling at a white women
Maine till emmets mother had an open casket funeral -
Bus boycott
Rosa parks refused to move from her seat on a bus and was arrested
Bus boycott begins and last 381 -
Southern Christian Leadership
Started after the bus boycott to organize protest
MLK was elected as president
Organized protest around the south to coordinate events such as Greensboro -
Little Rock 9 Arkansas
Testing brown v board of education decision
9 students were vetted to undergo this test
Aug 29, 1958 schools reopened -
Greensboro North Carolina
Four college students sat down at a lunch counter at Woolworth’s to be served. They refused service -
Student nonviolent coordinating committee
Youth group of students remained fiercely independent MLK and SCLC generating their own projects and strategies the two organization worked side by side throughout the early years of the civil rights movement -
Freedom riders
2 week bus trip to the Deep South to deliberately violate Jim Crow law. It was organized by CORE the buses were burned and riders were beaten by the KKK -
March on Washington
March on Washington for jobs and freedom was to advocate for the civil and economic rights of African Americans 250,000 people were in attendance at the Lincoln memorial -
Civil rights act of 1964
Blacks cannot be refused service. Forbids employers and labor union to discriminate against any person on grounds of race color religion -
March on Selma 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 -
Voting rights of 1965
One of the most comprehensive pieces of legislation in US history