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Brown v. Board of education
Who was involved? Plaintiff: Oliver Brown
Where did it take place? Topeka, Kansas
What happened? Oliver brown had filed a case against the board of education of Topeka Kansas in 1951. He filed this after his daughter, Linda Brown, was denied entrance to Topeka’s all white elementary school.
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Murder of Emmet Till
Who was involved? Roy Brant, J.W. Milam, Carolyn Bryant Donham.
Where did it take place? Money, Mississippi
What happened? While visiting his relatives in Mississippi, Till went to the Bryant store with his cousins and may have whistled at Carolyn. Her husband, Roy Bryant, and brother in law J.W,p. Milam, kidnapped Till. They brutally murdered him and dumped his body in the Tallahatchie River. -
Rosa Parks and the Montgomery bus boycott
Who was involved? Rosa Parks, MIA, and WPC- a group of black women working for civil rights.
Where did it take place? Montgomery, Alabama
What happened? Sparked by the arrest of Rosa Parks in December 1, 1955. The Montgomery bus boycott was a 13 month mass protest that ended with the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that segregation on public buses. -
Founding of Southern Christian Leadership conference
Who was involved? Martin Luther King Jr., Bayara Rustin, Ralph Abernathy, Fred Shuttlesworth, Joseph Lowery, and others.
Where did it take place? Atlanta, Georgia
What happened? This was a civil rights organization, as an offshoot of the Montgomery improvement association, which successfully staged a 381-day boycott of the Montgomery Alabamas segregated bus system. The campaign was a failure. In 1963 SCLC claimed its first victory. -
Little Rock Nine and Central High school
Who was involved? 9 African American students; Minnijen Brown, Terrace Roberts, Elizabeth Eckford, Ernest Green, Thelma Mothershed, Melba Patillo, Gloria Ray, Jefferson Thomas, and Carlotta Walls.
Where did it take place? Little Rock, Arkansas
What happened? They made their way through a crowd shouting obscenities and even throwing objects. Once the students reached the front door the National guard prevented them from entering the school and were forced to go home. -
Greensboro-Sit-In
Who was involved? 4 young black men; Ezell Blair Jr., David Richmond, Franklin McCain, and Joseph McNeil.
Where did it take place? Greensboro, North Carolina
What happened? This was a civil rights protest. When 4 young African Americans students staged a sit in at a segregated woolworths lunch counter and refused to leave after being denied service. The sit-in movement soon spread to college towns throughout the south. -
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and freedom Summer
Who was involved? Thompson, Rudy Lombard, James Bevel, Marion Barry, Angeline Butler, Stokely Carmichael, and Joan Trumpauer Mulholland joined John Lewis and Hank Thomas
Where did it take place? Raleigh North Carolina
What happened? With the civil rights movement itself splintering into factions, SNCC had lost its employees and most of its branches. With Brown facing various legal charges, the organization struggled to survive, and by the end of 1973 SNCC no longer existed -
Freedom Ride/Freedom Riders
Who was involved? Group of white and African Americans
Where did it take place? Southern United States
What happened? They were a group of civil rights activists. The mob followed the bus in automobiles, and when the tires on the bus blew out, someone threw a bomb into the bus. The Freedom Riders escaped the bus as it burst into flames, only to be brutally beaten by members of the surrounding mob -
March on Washington
Who was involved? Different civil rights groups, labor unions, and religious organizations, including the NAACP, SNCC, AFL-CIO, and SCLC.
Where did it take place? The Lincoln memorial
What happened? a quarter of a million people rallied in Washington, D.C. to demand an end to segregation, fair wages and economic justice, voting rights, education, and long overdue civil rights protections. Civil rights leaders took to the podium to issue urgent calls to action that still resonate decades later. -
Civil Rights Act
Who was involved? Those gathered behind President Johnson at the bill signing included civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., and future District of Columbia Delegate Walter Fauntroy.
Where did it take place? The White House
What happened? The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin. Provisions of this civil rights act forbade discrimination on the basis of sex, as well as, race in hiring, promoting, and firing. -
Selma to Montgomery Marches(Bloody Sunday)
Who was involved? SNCC chairman John Lewis and the Reverend Hosea Williams of SCLC.
Where did it take place? Selma, Alabama
What happened? Martin Luther King led thousands of nonviolent demonstrators to the steps of the capitol in Montgomery, Alabama, after a 5-day, 54-mile march from Selma, Alabama, where local African Americans, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) had been campaigning for voting rights. -
Voting Rights Act
Who was involved? Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law on August 6, 1965, with Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights leaders present at the ceremony.
Where did it take place? Selma, Alabama
What happened? It outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War, including literacy tests as a prerequisite to voting