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Brown v. Board of Education
NAACP took five cases to the Supreme Court of unequal treatment. The court rules 9-0 to overturn separate but equal due to the unfair schooling. Most blacks did not go to school until 10 more years because they would get tortured. -
Murder of Emmett Till
Emmett Till whistled at a white woman at a store in Mississippi. 3 days later he was kidnapped, beat to death, and thrown in the water. Roy Bryant the killer was found not guilty. His mother had an open casket at the funeral so the public could see what happened to her son. -
Rosa Parks and the bus boycott
Rosa Parks gets arrested because she didn’t move on the bus. The busses then ran empty for 381 days because the boycott. The Supreme Court then ruled buses had to let black people ride them. -
Southern Christian Leadership Confrerence
A meeting of black church pastors coordinating events for black people. MLK was elected as the first president. This group also registered blacks to vote, opposed Vietnam war, and got better jobs for blacks. -
Little Rock 9
Nine black students wanted to go to a white school and were told no. President Eisenhower sent 12,000 military men to escort them to school. By 1959 all schools were fully integrated. -
Greensboro Sit Ins
Four college students went to Wodworth’s to buy some things. They then went to the lunch counter and were refused service and told to leave but stayed. Day after day they came back and the amount of people that joined them amounted to 1,000 people. -
Freedom Riders
A diverse group of people from 39 states rode on buses to try and make a change. They arrived in Charlotte NC and were blocked by the KKK. They got their tires slashed, fire bombed, buses burned and heated, this happened town after town. -
March on Washington
250,000 people peacefully marched in Washington D.C. it was one of the largest gatherings in U.S. history. MLK gave his famous I Have a Dream speech. -
Civil Rights Act (1964)
This enables the federal government to prevent racial discrimination in private and public businesses. This includes race, color, religion or national origin. The green book was not used anymore because anyone could go or stay anywhere. -
Assassination of Malcom X
Malcom X was a civil rights leader and part of the Nation of Islam. He wanted blacks to believe in themselves and start their own business. He got shot 21 times and the man convicted was Thomas Hagan. -
Selma to Montgomery Marches(Bloody Sunday)
Black marches wanted to walk 54 miles to Montgomery Alabama. They were going to register to vote. On the other side of the Edmond Bridge Alabama state troopers beat the marchers. -
Voting Rights Act (1965)
This act ended any discrimination in voting for African Americans. Now it is a federal matter not a state matter. Now this act has been used to help disabled people. -
Assassination of Martin Luther King
Martin Luther King was at a striking sanitation workers protest in Memphis Tennessee. We was shot by James Earl Ray in the right side of his face. His death marked the end of the Civil Rights Movement.