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Brown is board of elections separate bat equal was wrong
It was a Supreme Court case to end segregation. 9-0 decision- or unanimous, for equal protection under the 14th Amendment. After the decision vidence and riots broke out, with somes schools closing. -
Emmet till
14 year old kid was killed and caused a spark in the upsurge of activism and resistance that became known as the civil rights movement -
Rose Parks and bus boycott
The Montgomery Bus Boycott was civil right protest during which African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery, Alabama to protest segregated seating. The boycott took place from December 5, 1955 to December 20, 1956. -
Little Rock 9
The first African American student to enter Little Rock’s central high school. It was started by black people. First black people high school. -
SCLC
Southern Christian leadership conference. Non sectarian American angency that coordinated and assist local organization working for full equal of African American -
Student nonviolent coordinating committee and freedom summer
Project or the Mississippi Summer project, was a volunteer campaign in the United States launched -
Greensboro 4
This is where non violent protest would go. They would go to a stores suck as Woolworth and now international civil rights center. -
Freedom riders
Group of white and African American civil rights activists who participated bus trip through the American South in 1961 to protest segregation bus terminal -
March on Washington
The March on Washington was a massive protest March that occurred in August 1963 when some 250,000 people gathered in front of Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. it is also known as the March on Washington for jobs and freedom. -
Civil rights act
1954 Congress passed Public Law 88-352 (78 Stat.241). The civil rights acts of 1964 prohibits discrimination on the basis of race,color, religion, sex or national origin. -
March on Selma/Bloody Sunday
March 7, 1965 state and local police used billy clubs, whips, and tear gas to attack hundreds of civil rights activists beginning a March from Selma, Alabama to state capital in Montgomery. -
Voting rights
The voting right act of 1965, signed into law by president Lyndon B. Johnson, aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote.