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Brown v. Board of education
On may 17, 1954, Earl Warren delivered a ruling civil rights case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. It states that the state- sanctioned segregation of public schools was a violation of the 14th amendment and was therefore unconstitutional. -
Murder of Emmett Till
On August 28, 1955 Emmett Till was a black teenager from Chicago. He went to go visit family in a small town in Mississippi during the summer. Till was lynched for allegedly whistling at a white woman and then then he was brutally beaten body was found floating in the Tallahatchie river. -
Rosa Parks and the Bus Boycott
On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man on the bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Rosa invigorated the struggle for racial equality then got arrested. -
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
The SCLC is a civil rights organization was found in 1957 in Atlanta, Georgia. As an offshoot of the Montgomery Improvement Association, which successfully staged a 381-day boycott. -
Little Rock 9
In 1957, in Little Rock, Arkansas. Nine ordinary teenagers walked out of their homes and stepped up to the front lines in the bottom for civil rights for all Americans. -
Greensboro Sit Ins
In Greensboro, North Carolina 4 college students would go to wodworth’s to buy items. Then go sit at the lunch counter. They are refused service and told to leave, but they stayed. Day after day they came back and did the same thing. The amount of students grew over the days to 1,000. Wodworth’s was losing $1.8 million so they decided to serve the black community. -
Freedom Riders
In Washington, D.C. 436 individuals in 60 separate freedom rides. They went to the Deep South to desegragte bus stations, dinners and hotels. They arrived in charlotte, North Carolina, and blocked by the KKK. Tires slashed, fire bombed, buses burned and beatings, and went town to town. -
March on Washington
In Washington D.C. 250,000 people gathered peaceful and respectful protest. MLK will give, I have a dream speech. He was the last speaker of the day. -
Civil Rights Act (1964)
In July 2, 1964 in Washington, D.C. Lyndon B. Johnson and Martin Luther King enabled the federal government to prevent racial discrimination and segregation based on race, color, religion or national origin in private businesses or public facilities. -
Assassination of Malcom X
In the Audubon Ballroom in New York, Malcom X was assassinated by a civil rights leader Thomas Hagan who was apart of the Nation of Islam shot him 21 times. Malcom wanted black people to believe In themselves and start their own business. -
Selma to Montgomery Marches
In Selma, Alabama March 7, 1965. 600 black marches wanted to walk 54 miles to Montgomery to register to vote. At the Edmond bridge, troopers brutally beat them. -
Voting Rights Act
In Washington D.C. LBJ was involved in the ending of the right to vote of Africa Americans any discrimination involving. Now a federal matter and not a state. -
Assassination of Martin Luther King
In Memphis, Tennessee at the Lorraine motel. Striking sanitation workers protest in Memphis, and went back to the motel. MLK was shot in the lower right side of his face, with a Remington Rifle. James Earl Ray was accused and sentenced to 90 years. His death marked the end of the Civil Rights Movement .