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plessy v ferguson
this all happened because plessy got sick of getting treated poorly and it happened on a train then years after that was a fight for blacks rights to do any thing at the time the blacks had the own everything they could not use any thing that said whites only so plessy put his foot down and said he was not going to the back fo the train so then finaly the law was changed they changer law 13 and 14 it was changed beacuse of a 7-1 vote(http://bit.ly/1uuLcJp) -
Jackie Robinson
he went to UCLA where he played 4 sports which was baseball, basketball, football and track.he also survived in the us army he started off playing on the black team in Kansas City he was 28 years old when he went to the major leagues at this time there was about 25,000 people looking at him this all was in new York and he was 3 and 0. this went so fair that he was the one that helped the Yankees win (http://bit.ly/J8gjWK) -
sweatt v painter
a black man, applied for admission to the University of Texas Law School. the school only let whites in to the library so the black man objected to that because of his color he could not learn about law. this case was a inspiration on many other cases.(http://lawhigheredu.com/123-sweatt-v-painthtmler.) -
little rock-central high school
nine black students enrolled at formerly all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. On September 4, 1957,was there the first day but the teachers stoped thnem from going in to the school then President Dwight D. Eisenhower sent in federal troops to escort the “Little Rock Nine” into the school, and they started their first full day of classes on September 25. Minnijean Brown, Elizabeth Eckford, Ernest Green, Thelma Mothershed, and Terrence Roberts,(http://bit.ly/1ufa8Cs) -
brown v board of education
so based on my prospective it was that public school was not allowed to colored people. this was because of the 14 Amendment. so by the end of the case they changed the amendment to where colored people could go to public schools(http://bit.ly/1p1Oc1f) -
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southern christian leadership conference (sclc)
when sixty black ministers and civil rights leaders met in Atlanta, Georgia in an effort to replicate the successful strategy and tactics of the recently concluded Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott. The Southern Christian Leadership Conference struggled during its beginning, with only one full time staff member, but soon expanded with the student sit-in movement of 1960 and the Freedom Rides of 1961. In 1963 claimed its first victory.during this the colered people got hosed(http://bit.ly/1I8sxN8) -
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Montgomery bus boycott
Bus Boycott, in which African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery, Alabama. On December 1, 1955, four days before the boycott began, Rosa Parks, an African-American woman, refused to yield her seat to a white man on a Montgomery bus.by blacks in Montgomery began on the day of Parks’ court hearing and lasted 381 days.the leaders of the boycott, a young pastor named Martin Luther King Jr. he wake of the action (http://bit.ly/1ymBgQq) -
the southern manifesto
Signed March 1956 by 19 Senators and 81 Representatives from the South.this was for are rights and to stop the abuse on colored people also they did almost every thing to stop the protesters. When the amendment was adopted, in 1868, there were 37 States of the Union. Every one of the 26 States that had had not yet differences among its people. established such schools by action of the same lawmaking body which considered the 14th amendment.(http://bit.ly/2ogNv4D) -
greensboro sit-in
Earlyin the 1960 a non-violent protest by young African-American students at a segregated Woolworth’s lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, sparked a sit-in movement that soon spread to college towns throughout the region.The four young black men who staged the first sit-in in Greensboro they all students from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College.(http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/the-greensboro-sit-in) -
student nonviolent coordinating committee
this gives the younger blacks a voice these gropes played a big part on the freedom rights movement Martin Luther king was the one that orchestrated the protests. Three of its members died at the hands of the Ku Klux Klan during the Mississippi Freedom Summer of 1964.(http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/sncc) -
bombing of Birmingham church
this got the name because a bomb exploited on a Sunday morning a when the bomb exploited 4 young girls got killed and severely injured this was part of the reason why the started to protest -
freedom riders
it started with 13 African-American and white civil rights activists launched the Freedom Rides. they did bus rides to the Americans south protesting(http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/freedom-rides) -
James Meredith
he was also a big part of the freedom riders. he was the the first colored student in Mississippi university. after he graduated he wrote a book about his experience the book was published in 1966 he did a lot of solo marches for the right to vote he spent 5 years in jail when was so-post to spine only 18 months he did that for going in to a white store (http://www.biography.com/people/james-meredith-9406314) -
letter from Birmingham jail
this letter was basically saying how the blacks were treated and how they could not get an edgication and that is why they were prow-testing and how they get killed for talking to a white person and how they get more time for the same crime (https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/04/martin-luther-kings-letter-from-birmingham-jail/274668/) -
Medger Evers
he was the first colored person to be in the army he was the one that boycotted against the white on who could go and who could not he was also the first one to go to Mississippi to study law. he had whitens a 14 year old boy get killed for talking to a white women (http://www.biography.com/people/medgar-evers-9542324) -
congress of racial equality
the core was one of ther earlyst civil rights movement they organized several events such as the Freedom Rides, aimed at desegregating public facilities, the Freedom Summer voter registration project and the historic 1963 March on Washington.they were a nonviolence group the group was founded in Chicago. soon the south started to boycott the buses so they hierd people to go to the south to fight for there rights (http://bit.ly/2nCak4H) -
march on Washington
more than 200,000 Americans gathered in Washington, D.C., for a political rally known as the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom at this time in Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech also a turning point in the civil rights movement Twice in American history, more than twenty years apart, a March on Washington was planned (http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/march-on-washington) -
twenty-fourth amendment
Twenty-fourth Amendment, amendment (1964) to the Constitution of the United States that prohibited the federal and state governments from imposing poll taxes before a citizen can participate in a federal election.(https://www.britannica.com/topic/Twenty-fourth-Amendment) -
Mississippi freedom summer
In 1964, civil rights organizations including the Congress on Racial Equality (CORE) and Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) organized a voter registration drive, known as the Mississippi Summer Project, or Freedom Summer, it was when they were fighting for there rights to vote so there was more protests but by 1965 they got htere right to vote (http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/freedom-summer ) -
civil rights act passed
when it got passed it took away every one getting judged by there color age gender sex john f Kennedy was the first to approve the law and was the strongest on it the civil rights act also heelped by making the voting act and fair house act -
Malcolm X assassinated
assassinated by rival Black Muslims while addressing his Organization of Afro-American Unity when this happened he got shot several times not just one time so he was shot to death just for protesting (http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/malcolm-x-assassinated) -
Selma to Montgomery march
this was when they started to let south blacks vote. so from this they were to vote in the south cause it was for all of the united states of america not just for the north so the Norths blacks put there foot down and got the south registered to vote(http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/selma-montgomery-march) -
voting rights act approved
the law was signed in by president Lyndon Johnson this law goes ageist the 15 Amendment and he did not care because peace was worth more then something signed in the 1800s so this made it to where women and colored were able to vote so this is why to this day we and got to school to gether and women and colored can vote (http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/voting-rights-act) -
black panthers
the black panthers was made in 1966 and they played a short but important part in the civil rights movement. they thought that f Martin Luther King had failed and any promised changes to their lifestyle. the two founders were Huey Percy Newton and Bobby Seale.(http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/the-civil-rights-movement-in-america-1945-to-1968/the-black-panthers/) -
king assassinated
U.S. civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. had been assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee.he led the civil rights movement since the mid-1950s it was sad because he was a vary motivator speaker he was assassinated by a sipper ( http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/martin-luther-king-jr-assassination)
