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Brown vs. Board of Education
It was a Supreme Court case that ended segregation. The vote was 9-0. Linda Brown had a two commute to go to a Black school but a White school was blocks away. The decision was a good one but there was a lot of violence after -
Emmet Till
A 14 year old boy from Chicago visiting from Mississippi was accused of whistling at a white woman while at the store. Ray Bryant and JW Milan kidnapped, beat, shot, killed and then threw Emmet Till into a lake. Till’s mother wanted an open casket for his funeral so everyone could see the damage they had done. -
Rosa Parks and Bus Boycott
Rosa Parks sat at the front of a bus and then refused to give her seat up to a white person. This lead to her arrest and a boycott of buses. A lot of non violent protest took place to have a civil rights movement. -
Little Rock 9
9 students were vetted to under a test that the Brown vs. Board of education decided. They were escorted everyday to class. Following this all schools closed for a year and reopened on August 29th, 1959. -
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
This happened after the bus boycott to organize a protest. Martin Luther King was the president of this organization. They did multiple non violent protests, sitins, march on Washington and Selma. After their president was assassinated it declined but it still exists today. -
Greensboro 4
4 college students sat down at a lunch counter at Woolworths to be served. They were refused service. Continued the “sit in” and others joined. The other towns forced change. -
Freedom Riders
2 weeks bus trip to the Deep South, to deliberately violate Jim Crow law. It was organized by CORE. The buses were burned and riders beaten by KKK. November 1st 1961 white and colored signs are removed from the bus stations, train stations, and lunch counters. -
March on Washington
A March for jobs and freedom. This was to advocate for the civil and economic rights of African Americans. 250,000 people attended and MLK was the last to speak and gave his “I have a dream speech”. This helped pass the civil rights act of 1964 -
Civil Rights Act
Forbids employers and labor unions to discriminate against any person on grounds of race, color, religion, sex, physical disability or age in relation to job matters. -
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. Seen on national tv.