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Cicero Race Riots
When a mob of 4,000 whites attacked an apartment. That housed a single black family. Only 60 officers were assigned to the riot. They did little to control the rioting.The Cicero Race Riot of 1951 was the first race riot to be broadcast on local television. -
Highlander Folk School
Highlander forused on labor and adult education, till the early 1950's they switched their attention to race relations. Throughout the civil right movement this mainly focused on school desegregation voter education/ voter rights. Highlander developed a program that taught African Americans their rights as citizens. They also trained civil right leaders and activists. -
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African-American Civil Rights Movement
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Urban Migration of Blacks
During the period of 1954 over 65% of blacks had migrated to urban areas. The Great Migration with the first time in history where the majority of blacks resided outside of the south.African Americans from the South move to the cities of the North, Midwest and West. -
Emmet Till
A 14 year old was brutally beating to death and dumped in the river. He was visiting family down in Money, Mississippi when he was accused of whistling at Carolyn Bryant the cashier of a grocery store. Four days later the Bryant's husband and his half brother went to his Till's great-uncle house and kidnapped him. That's when they had him carry a 75 pound cotton gin fan to a bank. Then ordered him to take off his clothes. They beat him to death shot him and dumped him in Tallahatchie River. -
Lunch Counter
Four young African American college students sat down at a lunch counter at a segregated Woolworth’s in Greensboro, North Carolina. They politely asked for service. Their requested was denied. -
March on Washington
On August 28,1963 more than 200,000 Americans all gather in Washington , D.C. They all came together to march for Jobs and freedom.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. -
Birnmingham Church Bombing
A bomb blast at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, kills four African-American girls during church services. Three former Ku Klux Klan members are eventually convicted of murder for the bombing. The bombing was an act of white supremacist terrorism -
Murders of civil right workers
Three young civil right workers-21year old black Mississippian, James Chaney, and two white New Yorkers, Andrew Goodman, 20, and Michael Schwerner, 24 were murder in Nashoba county, Mississippi. They had been working to register black voters during freedom summer. They were arrested by the police charged on trumped-up charges. They were released at night into the hands of Ku Klux Klan, who beat and murdered them. -
Malcolm X assassinated
On February 21,1965 Malcom X was shot just right before he was about to give his speech. The speech was about his new organization called the Organization of Afro-American Unity. He was killed by rival black muslims. -
Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated
King was standing on the second-floor balcony of the Lorraine Motel, where he and his friends were staying, when a sniper’s bullet struck him in the neck. He was killed by James Earl Ray
