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Plessy vs Ferguson
Court case in which the Supreme Court ruled that "separate but equal" facilities were constitution -
Founding of the NAACP
Du Bois joined by Jane Adams and other reformers work to stop to segregation and for equal rights. -
Brown vs The Board of Education
Oliver Brown sued the school board of Topeka, Kansas. It reached the Supreme Court . The court ruled that "separate but equal " had no place . Schools began to intergrate. -
Jackie Robison
Jackie Robinson is signed to the Boston Dodgers making him the first colored player in major league baseball. He's first season was ruff and full of abuse from the fans, but Jackie soon won them over with his display on the field. He ended up winning rookie of the season. -
Military intergration
President Truman orders the intergration of all armed forces. As a result colors and whites fought together in the Korean war -
Montgomery bus boycott
As the word of rosa parks arrest spread members of the women's political council of Montgomery the handed out 52,000 flyers planning a boycott of the buses. That Monday not one black passenger road the bus. -
Murder of Emmett Till
Emmett Till was from Chicago, and moved to missippi. When day he saw an attractive white women walking down the street and cat called her. He was the lynched and murdered by locals -
Little rock nine
The little rock school approved a plane af gradual desegregation, nine African American students were sent to the central city high school. The abuse of the students, teachers, and even the government that president Eisenhower had to step in with federal troops. -
Greensboro sit-in
4 black students sat down at a whites only counter in a dinner and refused to move until they received service. This led to a series of other sit-ins that caused the removel of the policy of racial segregation. -
Freedom riders
A group of 13 African-American and white civil rights activists launched the Freedom Rides, a series of bus trips through the American South to protest segregation in interstate bus terminals. The Freedom Riders, who were recruited by the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), a U.S. civil rights group, departed from Washington, D.C., and attempted to integrate facilities at bus terminals along the way into the Deep South -
Birmingham children's march
Initiated and organized by Reverand James Bevel The Birmingham Children's Crusade was a march by hundreds of school students in Birmingham, Alabama, the purpose of the march was to walk downtown to talk to the mayor about segregation in their city. Many children left their schools and were arrested, set free, and then arrested again the next day. The marches were stopped by the head of police "Bull Connor" who brought fire hoses to ward off the children and set police dogs after the children. -
March on Washingtin
more than 200,000 Americans gathered in Washington, D.C., for a political rally known as the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Organized by a number of civil rights and religious groups, the event was designed to shed light on the political and social challenges African Americans continued to face across the country. The march, which became a key moment in the growing struggle for civil rights in the United States, culminated in Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech, a spirite -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Piece of civil rights legislation in the United States[5] that outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.[6] It ended unequal application of voter registration requirements and racial segregation in schools, at the workplace and by facilities that served the general public (known as "public accommodations"). -
Malcom X
Malcolm X was an American Muslim minister and a human rights activist. To his admirers he was a courageous advocate for the rights of blacks, a man who indicted white America in the harshest terms for its crimes against black Americans; detractors accused him of preaching racism and violence. He has been called one of the greatest and most influentia -
Selma March
The three Selma to Montgomery marches were part of the Voting Rights Movement underway in Selma, Alabama. -
Voting rights act of 1965
igned into law by President Lyndon Johnson on August 6, 1965, aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote under the 15th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.
