Civil Rights

By phippsr2019.

  • Brown vs. Board of Education

    Brown vs. Board of Education
    Supreme Court ruled that separate schools could never be equal, this struck down Plessy vs. Ferguson. Schools were no longer aloud to be separate, races all together in one school.

  • Bus Boycott

    Bus Boycott
    An African-American named Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white person in Montgomery, Alabama and she was arrested and jailed.

  • Crisis in Little Rock

    Crisis in Little Rock
    Governor refuses to obey Supreme court decision to desegregate Central High School in Little Rock , not allowing teen African-Americans to eneter any "whites only" high school.

  • Greensboron Lunch Sit in

    Greensboron Lunch Sit in
    African Americans sat in white sections in restaurants as protests
    -a form of peaceful protest in which people occupied seats in a segregated faciility
    -Greensboro Lunch Counter Sit In - Feb 1-July 25 1960: Woolworths lost 1/3 of its business and desegregated all if it's restaurants (nationally) on July 26 1960. Black employees were the 1st to be served

  • The Children’s Marches

    The Children’s Marches
    As there were less and less people to march/protest because of killings and jailing, children started to take place in the march and participate for equality. 600 kids were arrested and this put shame on the USA.

  • March on Washington

    March on Washington
    About 250,000 Americans ,both races, march all the way to Washington D.C to protest for freedom and equal job hiring. Dr. King Jr. lead the crowd with his wife to take a stand for freedom in equality.

  • Sixteenth Street Baptist Church Bombing

    Sixteenth Street Baptist Church Bombing
    At the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church,
    4 little girls (Addie.M.Collins, Carole Robertson, Cynthia Wesley, and Denise McNair) were killed in a bombing during Sunday school due to the KKK.

  • Civil Rights Act of 1964

    Civil Rights Act of 1964
    This act outlawed discrimination in hiring, ended segregation in public areas and discrimination based on anyones race, color, religion or national origin.

  • Malcolm X

    Malcolm X
    Member of the Nation of Islam favored separation from whites, encouraged African Americans to defended themselves using whatever means necessary assassinated Feb.21 1965.

  • Voting Rights Act of 1965

    Voting Rights Act of 1965
    This law was past to out law discrimination in voting and literacy test.

  • Dr. King’s assassination

    Dr. King’s assassination
    Dr. King was assassinated by James Earl Ray in Memphis Tennessee, even in death he is one of the most influential figures in civil rights and nonviolent protest.