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Brown vs Board of Education
It was a supreme court case to prove that segregation in public schools wasn't constitutional. It helped with "separate-but-equal" education. -
Murder of Emmitt Till
A 14-year old African American boy from Chicago was visiting family in Money, Mississippi and he was murdered for "flirting" with a white woman. The woman said that he grabbed her, made advances and whistled at her and when she told her husband him and Roy Bryant went and got him then beat him and threw him in the river. After the body was found unrecognizable and the men were seen as not guilty his mother had an open casket for people to see what they did to her son over his race. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
It was a protest created after Rosa parks arrest where African Americans refused to ride Montgomery buses. This lasted till December 5th 1956. -
Integration of Little Rock High School (Little Rock Nine)
This was a group of 9 african americans that went to a whites school called "the little rock central highschool" -
Formation of the SCLC
The Southern Christian Leadership conference wanted to get "the soul of America" through non-violents. This was lead by Martin Luther King jr. The black churches supports the groups activities. -
Founding of SNCC
The student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was the way students participated in the US to the Civil Rights Movement. -
Woolworth's counter sit-ins in Greensboro
The Woolworth's counter sit-in was a civil right protest where African American students sat at white only lunch counters and refused to leave when they weren't served. -
Freedom Rides
Freedom Riders was groups of both white and black civil rights activist who fought for the buses to be unseparated. Freedom Riders tried using "white-only" bathrooms and lunch counters. They were constantly arrested and others received violent hate from white protestors. -
Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letters from a Birmingham Jail”
MLK used smart ways to still get his messages and ideas out into the world and to his followers. He wrote these as a response to Clergys "call for unity" that happened during the protest. -
Assassination of Medgar Evers
Medgar Evers was a civil rights activist that participated in WW2 and joined the NAACP. He was a field worker who encouraged poor African americans to register to vote. He was also the one who had to gather witnesses and evidence for the murder of Emmet Till. He was murdered in his driveway by being shot to death. -
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
More than 200,000 people participated in the march and it was successful. John F. Kennedy was pressured into initiating a "strong federal civil rights bill in congress". During this is when MLK made his "I have a dream" speech. -
Birmingham Church bombing
At 16th street Baptist Church in Birmingham a bomb exploded during preparation killing 4 young girls. -
Assassination of Malcolm X
Malcolm was the son of a Baptist preacher who spread Marcus Garvey's ideas. His father was murdered because of this. Malcolm was removed from his home by welfare caseworkers sometime after and he started to become involved in criminal activities. In New York Malcolm X, a nationalist and religious leader, was killed by “rival Black Muslims while addressing his Organization of Afro-American Unity at the Audubon Ballroom in Washington Heights.” -
March on Selma
This was a political march from Slema, Alabama to Mongomery. It was led by MLK from March 21st to the 25th. It was the cause of the other events that happened that week. Local police tried stopping the march twice, only once violently. Around 25,000 people marched with them. -
Assassination of MLK
MLK was killed in Memphis Tennessee which shocked everyone. His death led to alot of anger to be released throughout the black community along with alot of mourning. After giving a speech foreshadowing his death he was at a motel when a sniper went off and shot him in the neck.
