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Emmett Till’s Murder
Till died at a family's local grocery store. Till was abducted, then they took him away to beat and mutilate him, before shooting him in the head and dropping his body in a lake. He was abused and hung after being accused of offending a white woman because flirting with white women as a black man wasn't allowedl. His death was a perfect example of how bad racism was with Blacks and all the lynchings. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to surrender her seat to a white person in the front of the bus. The protest against segregation lasted 13 months until the Supreme Court ruled that segregation on public buses was unconstitutional. -
Little Rock Nine Crisis
Nine African American students arrived at Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. No one welcomed them because it was an all white school. The president had to get involved for people to be okay with blacks at the school, yet they still received a lot of hate. -
Cooper v. Aaron
denied the school board of Little Rock, Arkansas the right to delay racial desegregation. Even though segregation was big at the time they passed this law to end it, and prevented schools from discriminating aginst blacks. -
Ruby Bridges and Integration of New Orleans Schools
before Runy started school the state of Louisiana tried to stop her from enrolling in an all white school. After the federal courts overturned those laws and allowed her to attend, she received a lot of hate from all the white parents and people started to protest. most parents stopped bringing their kids to school because they didn't want school to disintegrate. -
Integration of the University of Mississippi
Federal appeals court ordered the University of Mississippi to admit James Meredith, an African-American student. He was the first black student to enter the University. -
Albany Campaign
The first mass movement in the modern civil rights era to have as its goal the desegregation of an entire community -
Birmingham Demonstrations
More than 1,000 kids peacefully protested racial segregation at a children's crusade that Martin Luther King jr. organized. Local police and firemen attacked the children with high pressure fire hoses, batons, and police dogs. pictures of the children being brutally assaulted by police appeared on television and in newspapers throughout the nation. The U.S. Department of Justice had to intervene, when they decided to end desegregate the people responded with a series of local bombings. -
Assassination of Medgar Evars
37 year old African American civil rights activist, was shot and killed while standing in his driveway. -
March on Washington for Jobs
The largest gathering for civil rights of its time. An estimated 250,000 people attended the march on Washington for Jobs and Freedom -
Civil Rights Act
prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin -
Assassination of Malcolm X
African American Muslim minister was shot multiple times and died from his wounds. -
Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Martin Luther King was shot dead while standing on a balcony outside his second floor room. -
Shirley Chisolm’s Presidential Campaign
The first black candidate to contest a major party's nomination for president. -
Barbara Jordan’s Address at the Democratic National Convention
the first African-American woman to serve as president pro tempore of the state senate and served as governor of a state.