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Brown Vs. Board of Education
Supreme Court ruled that separating children in public schools on the basis of race was unconstitutional. It signaled the end of legalized racial segregation in the schools of the United States. -
Emmett Till
Emmett Till, a 14-year-old from Chicago is brutally
In Chicago, Mississippi Emmett Till was killed for allegedly " flirting" with a white women. This helped the Civil Rights Movement by having attention brought to it when Jet Magazine publish his beaten body in his open casket in the magazine. -
Rosa Parks
Rosa helped initiate the civil rights movement in the United States when she refused to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama bus in 1955. -
Civil Rights Act of 1957
Mandated the desegregation of all public schools -
Meeting in ATL, GA
Dr. King and six black pastors met in Atlanta, Georgia to protests against racial discrimination and segregation. -
Little Rock Nine
African American Highschool students challenged racial segregation by going to public school. This occurred in Little Rock Arkansas. -
Rudy Bridges
During the Civil Rights Movement a brave young girl name Rudy Bridges At six years old, helped the movement by being the first African American child to desegregate William Frantz Elementary School. -
Greensboro Sit-In
Four African American College students refuse to leave Woolworth's Segregated Lunch counter after being denied service in Greensboro , North Carolina. -
Freedom Riders
Groups of white and African American civil rights activists who participated in Freedom Rides, bus trips through the American South in 1961 to protest segregated bus terminals -
March on Washington
Dr. King and a quarter of a million people rallied in Washington, D.C. , this was to protest to end segregation, economic justice, voting rights, education , fair wages. etc.