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Brown V. Board of Education
The Topeka, Kansas Supreme Court ruled that separating children in public schools on the basis of race was unconstitutional.
Oliver Brown, and his daughter Linda had to drive hours just to go to school. -
The murder of Emmet till
Emmet till went to the Bryant store with his cousins while visiting relatives and whistled at Carolyn Bryant. Carolyn’s husband, Roy Bryant an Brother-in-law J.W. Milam, kidnapped and brutally murdered Till, dumping his body in the Tallahatchie River. -
Rosa Parks and the Bus Boycott
After rosa parks refused to ride in the back of the bus, African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery, Alabama, to protest segregated seating. -
Southern Christian Leadership Confrence
A civil rights organization founded in 1957 due to the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA), which successfully staged a 381-day boycott of the Montgomery Alabama's segregated bus system
Martin Luther King, Jr., Bayard Rustin, Ralph Abernathy, Fred Shuttlesworth, and others, founded the SCLC in order to have a regional organization that could better coordinate civil rights protest activities across the South -
Little Rock 9
Little Rock, Arkansas. NAACP and 9 black students the 9 black students wanted to go to the white school and the Governor of Arkansas called the national guard to stop them. President Eisenhower calls in 1,200 military men to escort the students from home to class. In 1959 all schools fully integrated -
Greensboro Sit ins
4 college students in Greensboro, North Carolina went to wodsworth’s and but items and sit down at the lunch counter. They are refused service and told to leave but they stayed. They went back multiple days and did the same thing and it grew to 600 students. -
Freedom riders
In Washington D.C. 436 people and 60 separate Freedom Riders, a diverse volunteer group from 39 states, most were college students.They started in Washington, traveling to desegregate bus stations, diners, and hotels. They arrived in Anniston, Alabama and were blocked by the KKK, tires slashed, fire bombed. Bases were burned and batings. -
March on Washington
250,00 people marched in Washington D.C. It was peaceful and respectful protest for jobs and freedom Martin Luther King gabe his “I have a dream” speach. MLK was the las speaker of the day -
Civil Rights Act (1964)
Lyndon B. Johnson , Martin Luther King
Washington D.C
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
University Irving Medical Center
New York
Muhammad Abdul Aziz, Khalil Islam, Thomas Hagen.
Malcom took the stage at the Audubon Ballroom in Washington Heights neighborhood in New York and was shot. -
Selma To Montgomery Marches
60 marchers, John Lewis
Selma Alabama
Black marchers wanted to walk 54 miles to Montgomery to register to vote. At the Edmond bridge troopers beat them -
Voting Right Acts (1965)
President Johnson, MLK, Rosa parks, John Lewis
Prohbited states from imposing qualifications or practices to deny the right to vote on account of race, etc. -
Assassination of Martin Luther King
Martin Luther king was shot while standing on the balcony of second story room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee