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Plessy v Ferguson
<a href='' >http://goo.gl/GyeL04</a>This 1896 U.S, Supreme Court case upheld the constituionality of segregation under the "seperate but equal" doctrine. It stemmed from an African-American train passenger, Homer Plessy, refusing to sit in a Jim Crow car. So the ruling on this case is that people of different races have to use segregated facilities. -
Jackie Robinson
<a href='' >http://goo.gl/k8kAAB</a>He made history in 1947 when he broke baseballs color barrier. He won the National League Rookie of the Year his first season. He made it to the hall of fame in 1962. The courage in which Robinson handled the abuses by other Americans inspired the generation of African Americans to question the doctrine of "seperate but equal". This helped pave the way for the Civil Rights Movement. -
Sweatt v Painter
http://goo.gl/SevDmN The court ruled that the University of Texas had violated the Equal Protection clause of the 14th amendment. They violated this by not allowing Herman Sweatt to the school becuase of his race. Since the school wouldnt provide a law school for minorities, the court said that the university had to allow sweatt to attent the school. This case made is possible for minorites to get a high education. -
Brown v Board of Education
http://goo.gl/4kFZY The court decided that schools needed to be integrated. They ruled that "seperate but equal" public schools for blacks and whites were unconstitutional. This case was what inspired education reform everywhere. After this case, the nation started opening education to all sudents.Ever since this day in history schools started becoming integrated and to this day they still are. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
http://goo.gl/ditLXT The montgomery bus boycott is when blacks refused to ride city busses in montgomery alabama. They did this to protest segregated seating. The protest too place Dec. 1, 1955 to Dec. 20, 1956. 4 days before the protest, Rosa Parks refused to give her seat in the front up to a white man. She was arrested and fined for it. Supreme court ordered montgomery to integrate the bus system. -
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Montgomery Bus Boycott
The montgomery bus boycott is when blacks refused to ride city busses in montgomery alabama. They did this to protest segregated seating. The protest too place Dec. 1, 1955 to Dec. 20, 1956. 4 days before the protest, Rosa Parks refused to give her seat in the front up to a white man. She was arrested and fined for it. Supreme court ordered montgomery to integrate the bus system. -
The Southern Manifesto
http://goo.gl/19sOJy The Southern Manifesto is a document that stated that the supreme court decision in Brown V Board case was an abuse of judicial power. This document encouraged states to resist implementing its mandates. The Brown decision was revisited in a later case. They said that the states were bound by the ruling and agreeing that its interpretation of the constitution was the supreme law of the land. -
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
http://goo.gl/LBzJeZ Martin Luther King Jr. was chosen as the first president of this new group. They were dedicated to aboloshing segregation and ending the abuse of black southerners in a non-violent manner. December 1961, SCLC held its forst direct action campaign in Albany Georgia. They held a series of marches to protest segregation. -
Little Rock Central High School
http://goo.gl/6FG7kD Little Rock high school got national attention when the govener of Arkansas sent the Arkansas NAtional Guard to the school. He sent the Fuard to the school to prevent 9 african american students from integrating the school. The govener wouldnt negotiate so the president federalized the arkansas guard. On September 25, the students, also known as the little rock 9, integrated the school. -
Greensboro Sit-in
http://goo.gl/jnmA2S On February 1, 1960, four students sat down at the lunch counter at the Woolworth’s in downtown Greensboro, where the official policy was to refuse service to anyone but whites. Denied service, the four young men refused to give up their seats. Police arrived on the scene, but were unable to take action. Then each day the students showed up with more and more students each time. -
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Commitee
https://goo.gl/YI9nyM On February 1, 1960, a group of black college students from North Carolina A&T University refused to leave a Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina where they had been denied service. This sparked a wave of other sit-ins in college towns across the South. The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, or SNCC, was created on the campus of Shaw University two months later to coordinate these sit-ins, support their leaders, and publicize their activities. -
Congress of Racial Equality
<a href='' >http://goo.gl/WEwWHW</a>CORE was founded in 1942, became one of the leading activist organizations in the early years of the American Civil Rights movement. Working with other gorups in early 1960's, they launched a series of initiatives. They aimed at desegregating public facilities, led the Freedom Ride and a Historic march on Washington. They had a non violent approach tp fighting racial segregation. -
Freedom rides
Interstate buses into the segregated southern United States. This act lead to any African Americans being allowed to ride the buses and being able to have more equal rights as the whites. -
Twenty Fourth Amendment
African Americans had been denied the right to vote. It also prohibits the federal government or the states from making voters pay a poll tax before they can vote in a national election. -
Letter From Birmingham Jail
A letter wrote by King Jr. From when he was arrested and placed into a jail. The arrest was from home being part of the civil rights act and speaking for what he thought was right. -
Medgar Evers
Medgar Evers was a civil rights activist who organized voter-registration efforts, demonstrations and boycotts of companies that practiced discrimination. Evers was shot in the back in the driveway of his home. -
March On Washington
Martin Luther King spoke to more than 200,000 Americans gathered in Washington, D.C., for a political rally known as the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Organized by a number of civil rights and religious groups. -
Bombing Of Birmingham Church
16th Street Baptist Church as church members prepared for Sunday services on September 15, a bomb exploded Sunday morning, the explosion killed four young girls. -
Civil Rights Act Passed
Ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination on race and religion. Proposed by President John F. Kennedy them years after voting rights were passed. -
Mississippi Freedom Summer
Civil rights organizations including the Congress on Racial Equality. This act also looked at making voter registration increase in Mississippi for Whites & African Americans. -
Malcolm X Assassinated
Malcolm X was an African American nationalist and religious leader. Malcolm created a movement named Afro American Unity. one week after his home was firebombed, Malcolm X was shot to death by Nation of Islam members while speaking at a rally of his organization in New York City. http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/malcolm-x-assassinated -
Selma To Montgomery March
Martin Luther King Jr lead the march in Selma Alabama. protesters attempting to march from Selma to the state capital of Montgomery were met with violent resistance by state and police officers. After the march it raised awareness for the need for a Voting Rights Act, which passed later that year. -
Voting Rights Act Approved
This Act was signed by President Lyndon. The situation was that states had different levels in which African Americans were either able or not able to vote. This act helped out the Civil Rights era because now any African American has the right to vote. -
James Meredith
Civil Rights Movement figure ran for Adam Adam Clayton Powell Jr.'s seat in the U.S. House of Representatives in 1967. Several years later, in 1972, he ran for a seat in the Senate, losing to Democratic. James served as a domestic adviser to U.S. Senator Jesse Helms. -
King Assassinated
Martin Luther King Jr. was the leader of the U.S. civil rights movment. Martin wanted to fight segregation and have equal rights for everyone. Martin was ssassinated in Memphis, Tennessee at the Lorraine motel. -
Black Panthers
Black Panthers were created to be an organization that was set up to fight for black rights. This organization was established when there were a lot of non equal rights and the fight between races
