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Brown Vs. Board of Education
Brown v. Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483 (1954), was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students unconstitutional. The decision overturned the Plessy v. Ferguson decision of 1896 which allowed state-sponsored segregation. Handed down on May 17, 1954, the Warren Court's decided that the "sperate but equal" law a a violation of the constitiution. -
Muder of Emmett Till
Emmett joins a group of teenagers, seven boys and one girl, to go to Bryant's Grocery and Meat Market for refreshments to cool off after a long day of picking cotton in the hot sun. Emmett goes into the store to buy bubble gum.after leaving Emmett comes back and whistle at Carolyn Bryant. Carolyn's husband, and his half brother J. W. Milam, kidnap Emmett Till from Moses Wright's home. brutally beating him, taking him to the edge of the Tallahatchie River, shooting him in the head. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Rosa Parks a Civil rights activist was on a bus on day and was told by the bus driver to get up and give her seat to a white person. She defied that order which led to her being arrested. Martin Luther King saw this a a opputunity to show the world the unjust fairness of the law. so he organized a bus boycott which meant no blak rode the bus until it was segragted. which in the end was a success because the bused were desegragated. -
Founding of the SCLC
On January 10, 1957, following the Montgomery Bus Boycott victory and consultations with Bayard Rustin, Ella Baker, and others, Dr. King invited about 60 black ministers and leaders to Ebenezer Church in Atlantaheir goal was to form an organization to coordinate and support nonviolent direct action as a method of desegregating bus systems across the South. -
The Little Rock Nine
The nine black students attempt to enter Central High but are turned away by the National Guard.Little Rock Mayor Woodrow Mann sends President Eisenhower a telegram asking for federal troops to maintain order and complete the integration process. The President announces he is sending 1,000 members of the 101st Airborne Division to Little Rock. He federalizes the 10,000-man Arkansas National Guard.Under escort by the Army troops, the nine black students are escorted back into Central High. -
Greensboro Sit-In
On February 1, 1960, four students from the North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University sat down at the lunch counter inside the Woolworth's store at 132 South Elm Street in Greensboro, North Carolina.The men, later known as the Greensboro Four, ordered coffee.Following store policy, the lunch counter staff refused to serve the African American men at the "whites only" counter and the store's manager asked them to leave.The next day, more than twenty black sat in. -
Freedom Rides
The first Freedom Ride took place on May 4, 1961 when seven blacks and six whites left Washington, D.C., on two public buses bound for the Deep South.In the first few days, the riders encountered only minor hostility, but in the second week the riders were severely beaten. In Anniston, Alabama, one of their buses was burned.CORE Leaders decided that letting violence end the trip would send the wrong signal to the country. They reinforced the pair of remaining riders with volunteers. -
James Meredith
Meredith is best known as the first African-American student of the University of Mississippi.He then attended Jackson State College for two years. In the fall of 1962 Meredith risked his life when he successfully applied the laws of integration and became the first black student at the University of Mississippi, a pivotal moment in the civil rights movement which sparked riots on the Oxford campus that left two people dead. -
"Letter from a Birmingham Jail [King, Jr."
King wrote the letter from the city jail in Birmingham, Alabama, where he was confined after being arrested for his part in the Birmingham campaign, a planned non-violent protest conducted by the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights and King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference against racial segregation by Birmingham's city government and downtown retailers. -
T. Eugene "Bull" Connor
Civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., who described Birmingham as "the most segregated city in America," organized the demonstrations with the help of local civil rights leader Fred L. Shuttlesworth and others. "Bull" Connor tried to stop the growing demonstrations, and gained lasting infamy when he resorted to using the water hoses and dogs. -
The I Have a Dream Speech
King helped organize a massive march on Washington, DC, on August 28, 1963.The assembled masses marched down the Washington Mall from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln MemorialKing's appearance was the last of the event; the closing speech was carried live on major television networks. On the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, King evoked the name of Lincoln in his "I Have a Dream" speech, which is credited with mobilizing supporters of desegregation and prompted the 1964 Civil Rights Act. -
The 1963 Birmingham Church Bombing
11-year-old Denise McNair and three 14-year-olds: Cynthia Wesley, Carole Robertson and Addie Mae Collins were killed when a dynamite bomb exploded at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. . The church had been a center for many civil rights rallies and meetings, and after the tragedy, it became a focal point drawing many moderate whites to join the civil rights movement. -
Poll Tax Abolished
. The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President, for electors for President or Vice President, or for Senator or Representative in Congress, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State by reason of failure to pay any poll tax or other tax. -
Muder of Martin Luther King Jr.
He was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee on April 4, 1968, at the age of 39.James Earl Ray, a fugitive from the Missouri State Penitentiary, was arrested in London at Heathrow Airport, extradited to the United States, and charged with the crime. On March 10, 1969, Ray entered a plea of guilty and was sentenced to 99 years in the Tennessee state penitentiary. -
Black Panther party
In October of 1966, in Oakland California, Huey Newton and Bobby Seale founded the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense.he 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.
