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Brown v Board of Education
This court case helped make it unconstitutional to segregate whites and blacks in schools. Before this, the separations between whites and blacks in schools were allowed. This made it super hard for blacks to get the opportunity at good schools or going to school in general. -
White Citizens Council
An association of white supremacists. The main purpose was to maintain white supremacy in the South. -
Brown v Board of Education II
This sped up the process of the whites and blacks combining the separation in schools. Making blacks and whites an equal chance in school due to this court case. Therefore the creation of state laws. -
Lynching of Emmett Till
Emmett was a fourteen year old African American boy that was murdered horrifically. He was murdered for allegedly flirting with a white female. This lynching was an eye-opener to the public for whites to see how horrible these blacks are being treated. The murder of a child it took for many whites to realize how they are treating a race. -
Rosa Parks Arrested
Rosa Parks was an African American woman who was arrested for not giving up her seat on the bus to a white male. She believed that there should be no bus segregations going on. She was taking part in the Montgomery bus boycott. -
Martin Luther King House Bombing
Martin Luther King Jr.'s house was bombed by by segregationists. Due to the success of the Montgomery Bus Boycott. -
Montgomery bus boycott
This bus boycott was a political and social peaceful protest against the segregation towards blacks. The protests were against the public transit system in Alabama. -
SCLC Founded
It stands for Southern Christian Leadership Conference. This is a nonprofit civil rights organization. The first president of the organization was Martin Luther King Jr. making a tremendous impact in this organization and the movement. -
Eisenhower sends in Federal Troops
President Eisenhower sent in troops to Little Rock high school. The Little Rock Nine was a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School. The enrollment of the nine students was the Little Rock Crisis. Those students were not being allowed to entering the segregated school by the Governor of Arkansas. -
SNCC Formed
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was one of the major civil rights movements. It was a group of black college students passionate for the anti-segregation movements. -
Greensboro sit ins
A series of nonviolent protests. These took part in Greensboro where four black men started to sit in and be silent and peaceful, pushing for civil rights. -
Freedom Rides
Freedom Riders were another name for civil rights activists. Who then rode interstate buses into the segregated southern states. To prove there was non-enforcement of the United States Supreme Court. -
White mob attacks federal marshals in Montgomery
This was the a place of violence. It was an attack on participants in the 1961 Freedom Ride during the Civil Rights Movement. 300 white segregationists attacked black and white freedom riders with bats and pipes. -
Albany Georgia “failure”
The Albany Movement was a desegregation campaign that mobilized more than thousands of citizens. It failed to accomplish its goals because of a determined opposition. Although it was a fail, it made key points in the Civil Rights Movement. -
Bailey v Patterson
Brought to the court of some statues in Mississippi that were unconstitutional. This court case was trying to eliminate the segregation being forced to obtain in states. Making it so no state my need to require segregation towards blacks in transportation. -
MLK goes to a Birmingham jail
MLK and others were protesting the harsh treatment of blacks in Birmingham, Alabama. They were then arrested and went to jail. MLK was trying to fight against the harsh racial rules in Birmingham. -
Bombing of Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth
The KKK members bombed the Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth home in Birmingham, Alabama. He was a leader with MLK in civil rights movements together. -
Equal Pay Act
This was a act replacing the Fair Labor Standards Act, that made a divide between men and women's pay in the workforce. This diminished the split of men and women and the unequal treatment between the genders. This was a start to the change of the differences in the genders. -
Kennedy sends in Federal Troops
President Kennedy forced Alabama Governor, George Wallace to listen to the federal court orders allowing two African American students to register for the summer session at the University of Alabama. The proclamation ordered Wallace to cease from obstructing justice. -
Assassination of Medgar Evers
Assassinated by a white supremacist named Byron De La Beckwith. He was an American Civil Rights activist. He was fighting for poor African Americans and motivating them to vote by traveling around. -
March on Washington “I have a Dream”
This was a march for jobs and freedom. The main point of the march was to advocate and support the African Americans rights. There were between 200,000-300,000 participants in the march. -
Bombing of a church in Birmingham
The Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, was an act of white supremacist terrorism. Which occurred at the African American church. The church was predominantly black, which also the church served as a place for civil rights meetings. -
Assassination of John F. Kennedy
He was assassinated at the Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas. He was riding with his wife Jackie, when he was shot. JFK was the 35th President. -
Freedom Summer
Also known as the Mississippi Summer project, being a volunteering campaign. The point of this campaign was to expand the voting of blacks in the U.S. -
24th Amendment
This prohibited the fee of voting called a poll tax. This was a fee when voting for Federal Officials. Five states in the south still kept these poll taxes to prevent some African Americans from voting. -
Killing of Goodman, Chaney, Schwerner
This killing was known as the Freedom Summer Murders. These three activists were abducted and in Neshoba County. Murdered by the KKK. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
This ended the segregation in many public places. This also ended the discrimination in the workforce due to gender, race, religion or nationality. These were some of the things gained in the Civil Rights Movement. -
Assassination of Malcolm X
He was an American Muslim minister, who also was a civil rights activist. He was accused of preaching racism and violence. He was thirteen years old when his mother was placed into a mental institution and his father was killed when he was only six years old. He did many public speeches about equality and freedom. -
Selma to Montgomery March
600 people planned a march from Selma to Montgomery. The march happened due to the legislation making the blacks not being able to vote. Then state troopers were at the edge of the city by the Edmund Pettus Bridge, that day became known as "Bloody Sunday". The troops violently attacked the peaceful marchers. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
This was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson. This was meant to overcome the struggle with letting African Americans have the freedom to vote. This was to eliminate the discrimination with African Americans. -
Black Panthers Formed
The Black Panther Party was a political organization created by Bobby Seale and Huey Newton. This group was very much against African Americans. Dressed in black leather jackets, they created harm towards blacks. -
Loving v Virginia
This was a case made to court by Mildred Loving. She was a woman of color and her husband Richard Loving who was a white man. Their marriage was a violation of the anti-miscegenation. -
Minneapolis Riots
There was racial tension in North Minneapolis. This caused tons of assaults, killing and vandalism. This linked to the tons of other racial related acts over the "long hot summer". -
Detroit Riots
One of the bloodiest riots in the long hot summer. It was on 12th street in Detroit. It was a confrontation between blacks and the police that started the riots. -
Assassination of MLK
Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated at the Loraine hotel in Memphis, Tennessee by James Earl Ray. MLK was a social activist who was battling the horrible segregation amongst blacks. -
Assassination of Robert Kennedy
42 year old Presidential candidate who was killed in the Ambassador hotel in LA. Sirhan Sirhan was a man who was an immigrant that fired multiple shots at him. After making a speech for the primary elections he was shot at and then taken to the hospital and later he died.
