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Lynching
There were more than 2,500 lynchings of African Americans between 1886 and 1900. By then, it was a fact of life that it happens. A majority occured in the deep south. -
NAACP
African American civil rights organization in the United States. Founded by Moorfield Storey, Mary White Ovington and W. E. B. Du Bois. Its mission is to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality and rights of all people and to eliminate racial hatred and racial discrimination. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYQswadO_3U -
BANNED
The discrimination against minorities was finally banned. President Teddy Roosevelt issued the order. Kept the fight for civil rights moving. -
Batter Up
Jackie Robinson was the first African American man to play major league baseball. This ended the sport's segregation that lasted over 50 years. He was a part of the Brooklyn Dodgers. -
Shelly VS Kramer
Private parties could no longer exclude minorities from buying houses in white neighborhoods. The Dixiecrats didn't like this and tried to fight it. They didn't prevail. -
Brown VS Board Of Education
Regarded as having sparked the modern civil rights era, the supreme court ruled deliberate segregation illegal. It was said that segregating children by race had the affect of hurting their hearts and minds that could never be undone. However, it took 10 years to make 2% of progress. -
Emmett Till
14 year old Emmett Till was beaten, shot, and lynched by whites. Supposedly it was for whistling and saying "bye, baby" to a white woman in a store, however this does not excuse the murder. This sparked outrage in Mississippi and soon spread. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-X4is9jMYk -
"You Can't Sit With Us"
Rosa Parks, a black woman, refused to give up her seat to a white man boarding the bus. This started the Montgomery Bus Boycott. The Montgomery Bus Boycott was led by Martin Luther King jr. -
"I Guess You Can Sit With Us"
The Montgomery bus boycott ends in victory. The segregation of buses is ruled illegal. They then returned to ride the buses as equals, however, violence would ensue. -
Little Rock Nine
Little Rock NIne was a group of nine young, black students who were the first group of students who attended the first segregated school. The white members of the community didn't like this and therefore tried to get it stopped, but the group had support of the president and other members of the black community and succesfully went to school. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xERXusiEsz -
Sit-In
A lunch counter sit-in started by black students in Greensboro North Carolina. Soon spread through the south to fight for integrated colleges. -
Freedom Rides
The Congress Of Racial Equality organized the freedom rides. These were to test the Interstate Commerence Commission regulations on segregation. This event brought up massive amounts of violence from the whites. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zBY6gkpbTg -
College
James Meredith became the first African American student to attend college. This was a big debate for a while and him being admitted was a victory. He attended the University of Mississippi. -
Selma
After the Selma, Alabama voting rights campiagn the Voting Rghts Act was passed and ended litteracy tests. This also ended other ways of discriminating minorities and thier right to vote. http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/selma-montgomery-march -
Detroit Riots
There was a black power hangout that was interrupted by police. This induced mass amounts of violence and ended up having a fatality rate of 43 people which included 33 african americans and 10 whites. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlQRfIzI4FA
