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Brown V Board of education
Brown V Board of education occurred on May 17, 1954. The person who took this case to court was Thurgood Marshall head of the NAACP, the Supreme Court justice that heard and ruled this case was Earl Warren. The case took place In Topeka Kansas and it was a long trial that took time. Once the trial was finished Earl Warren ruled that the segregation of blacks and whites at school was unconstitutional and he got rid of that law. -
Little Rock 9
The Little Rock Nine were a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. Their enrollment was followed by the Little Rock Crisis, in which the students were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school by Orval Faubus, the Governor of Arkansas. -
Murder of Emmett Till
On the day of August 28, 1955 14 year old Emmett Till was kidnapped, tortured and lynched. Emmett Till was a boy that was visiting family in the south. One day he went to a white owned store and it’s claimed that he whistled at the man’s wife and she felt offended. The husband and half brother then found emmet till and ruined his body horribly in many ways. His body was then later found by a boy fishing and his mother showed his body to the world this helped start the fight for rights. -
Rosa parks and the Bus Boycott
The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama. It was a foundational event in the civil rights movement in the United States. The campaign lasted from December 5, 1955—the Monday after Rosa Parks, an African-American woman, was arrested for her refusal to surrender her seat to a white person—to December 20, 1956,. -
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
On October 11 , 1957, following the Montgomery bus boycott victory against the white establishment and consultations with Bayard Rustin, Ella Baker, and others, Martin Luther King Jr. invited about 60 black ministers and leaders to Ebenezer Church in Atlanta. Prior to this, Rustin, in New York City, conceived the idea of initiating such an effort and first sought C. K. Steele to make the call and take the lead role. This is what later become the SCLC. -
Greensboro Sit Ins
The Greensboro sit in was a peaceful protest at a lunch counter in Greensboro South Carolina. The sit in started when some black college teens went to sit at the counter and they where denied service and asked to leave. The news spread quickly and suddenly huge amounts of black students began to join. These sit ins where organized by ezell Blair jr and then others joined. This was a protest where even if blacks where removed and beat others would come to take their spot. -
Freedom Riders
The freedom where a group of black teenagers that took buses and rode around the country to spread peace and equality. They would be brake checked and stuff throw at while driving around but this didn’t stop them. Until they met a hard obstacle in Montgomery. When passing by they stopped at a bus stopped and they got their tires slashed. No one was aware of this and the driver drove off the car then stopped and when the driver saw the condition of the vehicle he left the blacks to get jumped. -
March on Washington
The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, also known as simply the March on Washington or the Great March on Washington,was held in Washington, D.C., on August 28, 1963.The purpose of the march was to advocate for the civil and economic rights of African Americans. At the march, final speaker Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., standing in front of the Lincoln Memorial, delivered his historic "I Have a Dream" speech in which he called for an end to racism and racial segregation. -
Civil rights act (1964)
The civil rights act of 1964 was an act signed that prevent discrimination and hatred towards black citizens. This also made discrimination to anyone due to skin color, race, religion, sex or national origin illegal. This was an agreement with the president and Martin Luther king jr due to the previous events of violence that where seemingly increasing towards not only blacks but everyone. -
Assasination of Malcom X
Malcom x was An African American Muslim administrator and a civil rights activist he was born on may 19 1925 in New York. He was first introduced into the Muslim nation and then later left as he saw it was evil. He regretted ver joining them and he then joined MLK to spread positivity and happiness among all races. He was then shot and killed on 02 21 1965. By one of the henchmen of the Islam nation. He received 21 wounds from shotgun shells and 9mm rounds. -
Selma To Montgomery March (Bloody Sunday)
On 25 March 1965, Martin Luther King led thousands of nonviolent demonstrators to the steps of the capitol in Montgomery, Alabama, after a 5-day, 54-mile march from Selma, Alabama, where local African Americans, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) had been campaigning for voting rights. They where successful on the second walk but on the first they where hit assaulted and abused against by the state troopers of Alabama. -
Voting rights act (1965)
The Voting Rights Act is a landmark federal law enacted in 1965 to remove race-based restrictions on voting. It is perhaps the country's most important voting rights law, with a history that dates to the Civil War. This also allowed the blacks to not be denied lots of previous items and they could also vote now without having to fill out the forms that where only used for blacks. This was agreed upon and then signed after the events in Selma so the governor of Alabama could keep a good image. -
Assasination of Martin Luther King Jr (MLk)
Martín Luther king jr was a priest and civil rights leader born in Atlanta, Georgia on January 15, 1929. He became a priest following his fathers footsteps this then lead him to team up with Rosa parks and they organized a peaceful protest. They went by non violence protests and he was a leader for the blacks. He was then assasinated on April 4, 1968 while doing a strike for black sanitation workers. He was murdered at the Lorraine motel while he was outside on the balcony.