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Brown vs Board of Education
The Brown vs Board of Education started in Topeka, Kansas when Oliver Brown sued the school district because he wanted his daughter to go to a school that was closer to their house. The case was taken to the Supreme Court in which they ruled in favor of Brown. -
Murder of Emmitt Till
14 year old Emmitt Till was accused of whistling at a white lady named Carolyn Bryant. A man named Milam killed Emmitt because of the supposed incident. He beat him and then shot him in the head. there was a trial for Emmitt's murder but the male jury acquitted for Milam. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
During the civil rights movement, there was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system in Montgomery, Alabama. -
Formation of the SCLC
SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Conference) was an American civil rights organization. Its first president was Martin Luther King Jr. He played a large big part. -
March on Selma
Southern state legislatures had passed and maintained a series of discriminatory requirements and practices that had disenfranchised most of the millions of American across the South throughout the 20th century. -
Integration of Little Rock High School (Little Rock Nine)
Nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock High School in 1957. It followed with the Little Rock Crisis, in which the students were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school by Orval Faubus, the Governor of Arkansas. -
Founding of SNCC
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was a United States political organization formed by black college students. Its purpose was to overturn segregation in the South and give younger African Americans a voice in the civil rights movement. -
Woolworth's counter sit-ins in Greensboro, North Carolina
Young African Americans engaged in a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina. They refused to leave after being denied service. The sit-in movement soon spread to college towns throughout the South. -
Freedom Riders
Freedom Riders were groups of white African American civil rights activists who participated in Freedom Rides, which were bus trips through the American South in 1961 to protest segregated bus terminals. -
Martin Luther King Jr's "Letters from a Birmingham Jail"
The Letter from Birmingham Jail is also known as The Negro Is Your Brother. MLK wrote the letter from the city jail in Birmingham, Alabama where he held after being arrested for his part in the Birmingham campaign. -
Assassination of Medgar Evers
Medgar Evers was a field worker for the NAACP. He traveled through his home state encouraging poor African Americans to vote and recruiting them into the civil rights movement. He helped getting witnesses and evidence for the Emmett Till murder case. -
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
The march was a purpose to advocate for the civil and economic rights of African Americans. It was one of the largest civil rights rallies in U.S. history. Also, it was one of the most famous examples of non-violent mass direct action. -
Birmingham Church Bombing
As church members prepared for Sunday services at 16th Street Baptist Church, a bomb exploded killing 4 young girls. -
Assassination of Malcom X
Malcolm X was a nationalist and religious leader. He was assassinated by rival black Muslims in New York City while addressing his Organization of Afro-American Unity -
Assassination of MLK
Martin Luther King Jr. was fatally shot while standing on his balcony outside his second-story room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee
