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Plessy vs. Ferguson
Case in the supreme court over Racial Segregation. The Supreme court ruled that segragation was constitutional as long as the facilities for African Americans and Whites were "seperate but equal" -
Medger Evers
Medgar Wiley Evers was an American civil rights activist from Mississippi who worked to overturn segregation at the University of Mississippi and gain social justice and voting rights. Born July 2, 1925. Assassinated June 12, 1963. -
James Meredith
James Howard Meredith is a Civil Rights Movement figure, writer, political adviser and Air Force veteran. -
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Congress of Racial Equality
Goal was to end discriminatory policies and improving relations between races. Inspired by ghandi and Thoreau ,Core believed in non-violent protests inspired -
jackie robinson
First african american to play Major league baseball. Rookie of the year in 1947, National League MVP in 1949 and a World Series champ in 1955. -
Sweatt v Painter
Supreme court Ruled that the state of texas violated the 14th ammendment by creating an "Un-equal" segregated Law school for all blacks. -
Brown v Board of Education
Supreme Court ruled that segregated schools were un-constitutional. However it would be years for shcools actually integrated. -
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Montgomery Bus Boycott
Martin Luther King Jr. lead a protest in which African Americans refused to ride city Buses in Montgomery, Alabama. Later the U.S. Supreme court ruled an order that montgomery intergrate their buses. -
The Southern Manifesto
against the 1954 Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education. Argued the decision to force schools to integrate was "a clear abuse of judicial power" and encouraged states to resist and stay segregated -
Southern Christian Leadership Confrence
sixty black ministers and civil rights leaders met in Atlanta to try and replicate the same tactics of the just finished Bus Boycott. Mr. Luther King Jr. was chosen as the president of this new group trying to abolish legalized segragation. They Group later focused on war and poverty. -
Little Rock- Central High School
9 African Students were integrated into Central high school, a school with 2000 students, all white. The Arkansas governer tried to put in place the national guard to keep the school from integrating. President eisenhower then federalized the Arkansas National Guard and sent in 1000 troops from the army to help integrate the school and 8 out of the 9 students ended up finishing the school year, though constantly being tormented -
Greensboro Sit in
4 African American students in north carolina went to a segreagted lunch diner and sat down to protest segregation. The diner refused to serve them and they got rideculed by customers. Soon after there were sit ins all acrossed the south as a way to non violently protest. -
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Student Nonviolent Coordinating comittee
Organazation that lead large groups of people on non violent protests. organized sit ins,Freedom rides,the march on washington, and the Mississippi Freedom summer. -
freedom rides
group of 13 African Americans and whites recruited by C.O.R.E. sent off from washington D.C. into the deep south hoping to integrate buses and bus stations. Blacks would go into Whites only restrooms and vise versa. The group encountered great violence from white protestors and attorney general Kennedy sent in 600 federal marshalls to stop the violentce and to protect the freedom riders. -
Mississippi Freedom Summer
Freedom Summer (also known as the Mississippi Summer Project) was a campaign in the United States launched in June 1964 to attempt to register as many African-American voters as possible in Mississippi, which had historically excluded most blacks from voting. -
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March on Washington
- On August 28, 1963, 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 Dr
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Bombing Of Birmingham Church
On September 15, a bomb exploded before Sunday morning services at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama–a church with a predominantly black congregation that served as a meeting place for civil rights leaders. Four young girls were killed and many other people injured; outrage over the incident and the violent clash between protesters and police that followed helped draw national attention to the hard-fought, often dangerous struggle for civil rights for African Americans. -
Twenty-fourth Amendment
The Twenty-fourth Amendment (Amendment XXIV) of the United States Constitution prohibits both Congress and the states from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax or other types of tax. The amendment was proposed by Congress to the states on August 27, 1962, and was ratified by the states on January 23, 1964. -
Civil Rights Act Passed
The Civil Rights Act of 1964, which ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin, is considered one of the crowning legislative achievements of the civil rights movement. First proposed by President John F. Kennedy, it survived strong opposition from southern members of Congress and was then signed into law by Kennedy’s successor, Lyndon B. Johnson. In subsequent years, Congress expanded the act and also pas -
Selma to Montgomery March
In early 1965, Martin Luther King Jr.’s Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) made Selma, Alabama, the focus of its efforts to register black voters in the South. That March, protesters attempting to march from Selma to the state capital of Montgomery were met with violent resistance by state and local authorities. As the world watched, the protesters (under the protection of federalized National Guard troops) finally achieved their goal, walking around the clock for three days to reac -
Malcolm X Assassinated
On February 19, 1965, Malcolm X told interviewer Gordon Parks that the Nation of Islam was actively trying to kill him. On February 21, 1965, he was preparing to address the Organization of Afro-American Unity in Manhattan's Audubon Ballroom when someone in the 400-person audience yelled, "Nigger! -
Voting Rights Act approved
The Voting Rights Act, signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson (1908-73) 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 (1870) to the Constitution of the United States. -
Black Panthers
In October of 1966, in Oakland California, Huey Newton and Bobby Seale founded the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense. The Panthers practiced militant self-defense of minority communities against the U.S. government, and fought to establish revolutionary socialism through mass organizing and community based programs. -
M.L.K assassinated
Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was an American clergyman and civil rights leader who was fatally shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on Thursday, April 4, 1968, at the age of 39.
