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Brown v. Board of education
The story of Brown v. Board of Education, which ended legal segregation in public schools.This collection of cases was the culmination of years of legal groundwork laid by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in its work to end segregation. None of the cases would have been possible without individuals who were courageous enough to take a stand against the segregated system. -
The killing of Emmett Till
Emmett Till died at the age of 14 on August 28, 1955 in money, mississippi. Emmett Till was accused of whistling at Carolyn Bryant, a white woman who was a cashier at a grocery store. Four days later, Bryant's husband Roy and his half brother J.W. Milam kidnapped Till, beat him and shot him in the head. An all-white jury returned a "Not Guilty" verdict. -
Rosa Parks arrested
On 1 December 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger on a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama, this started a boycott and fueled the civil rights movement. -
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Montgomery Bus Boycott
A political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama. -
Civil rights act
Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson opposed Part III, a provision authorizing the attorney general to file civil injunction suits in civil rights cases, where local police denied rights of peaceable assembly by jailing, beating, or orchestrating economic reprisals against citizens attempting to register to vote or protest segregation -
The Little Rock 9
On September 25, 1957 nine black students courageously started their first full day at an all-white high school in Little Rock, Arkansas, amid an angry mob of students, pro-segregationist groups and a defiant governor. The students would become known as the Little Rock Nine.
