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Creation of the NAACP
"to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate racial hatred and racial discrimination". -
Scottsboro Boys
Alabama
Jumped a train to Memphis
9 african americans were accuse of rape after jumping a train. -
Jackie Robinson Breaks the Color Barrier
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Brown vs. Board of Education
Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. -
The Little Rock 9
a group of 9 african american students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. Their story was followed by the Little Rock Crisis, in which students were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school by Orval Faubus, the Governor of Arkansas. -
The Murder of Emmitt Till
Emmett Till was visiting relatives in Mississippi, on August 24, 1955, when he flirted with a white cashier at a grocery store. Four days later, two white men kidnapped Till, beat him and shot him in the head. -
Ruby Bridges desegregate elementary school
when she was 6 years old, her parents responded to a request from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and volunteered her to participate in the integration of the New Orleans school system, even though her father was hesitant. -
Letter from a Birmingham Jail
Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote a letter that defends the strategy of nonviolent resistance to racism. It says that people have a moral responsibility to break unjust laws, and to take direct action rather than waiting potentially forever for justice to come through the courts. Responding to being referred to as an "outsider", he wrote that “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere“. -
civil Rights Act of 1964
outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. -
Assassination of Malcolm X
was an American Muslim minister and a human rights activist. preparing to address the Organization of Afro-American Unity in Manhattan's Audubon Ballroom when someone in the audience yelled, "N- word! Get your hand outta my pocket!"As Malcolm X and his bodyguards tried to stop the fight, a man rushed forward and shot him once in the chest and two other men charged the stage firing handguns -
Creation of the Black Panthers
The Black Panther Party or BPP was a revolutionary black nationalist and socialist organization active in the United States -
Thurgood Marshall Named Supreme Court Justice
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Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
King had gone out onto the balcony and was standing near his room when he was shot at 6:01 p.m., -
Election of Barak Obama
First african american elected as president -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
event in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement, was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama. Rosa Parks
