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The Woolworth Counter
Four black kids went into the North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College begin a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter. They know they weren't going to get feed, but they sat through it anyways. Then 6 months later they were feed. This was effective throughout the whole South in integrating parks, swimming pools, theaters, libraries, and other public facilities. -
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Civil Rights Movement
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March on Washington
250,000 people gathered to promote Civil Rights and the equality for African Americans. They walked down Constitution and Independence avenues. Then 100 years after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed -
Black Student enrolls at Mississippi University
Richard Holmes was the only black kid in hes class to graduate in 1963. He graduated from Mississipp getting a 4 year medical degree. Peolpe say this was the start of a new beginning for many blacks everywhere. -
The Letter From Birmingham Jail
On a friday morning 53 blacks went to downtown Birmingham to protest the existing segregation laws. MLK was the leader and all of them were arrested. When he was in jail he wrote a letter, this letter would be the turning point of the civil rights movement. Martin Luther King's “Letter from Birmingham Jail” strives to justify the absolute immorality of unjust laws together with what a just law is. -
George Wallace stands in door
Alabama's Governor George Wallace came to an schoolhouse door in Alabama to try and stop integration of public schools. Wallace tried to block the attempt of two black students, Vivian Malone and James Hood, to register at the University of Alabama. President John F. Kennedy federalized the Alabama National Guard, and ordered the University to let them in. -
I Have a Dream
About 200,000 people went to Washington this day not even thinking they would hear one of the most popular speechs of all time. Martin Luther King said his famous "I Have a Dream" speech at Lincoln Memorial. This changed segragation in a very big way. -
Birmingham Church Bombing
A white man was seen getting out of a white car and placing a box under the steps of the Baptist Church. Soon afterwards, the bomb went off killing Denise McNair an 11 year old, Addie Mae Collins, Carole Robertson, Cynthia Wesley at 14 years old. They were all attending a Sunday school classes at the church when the boom went off. They were killed along with twenty-three other people were also hurt by the blast. -
Civil Rights Act
President Lyndon Baines Johnson brought the act back up to date and this was the first time the Supreme Court ruled on segregation in public schools since 1954. Back then the percentage of blacks in school was about 6% but, now in 1965 it went up to about 22%. -
Voting rights act
The fifteenth amendment was finally passed after all these years. Voting Rights Act really changed the relationship between the Federal and state governments in the area of voting since the Reconstruction period following the Civil War, was immediately challenged in the courts. -
Watts Race riot
It is said that the traffic started this huge riot. So the traffic stopped one day and all chaos broke loose. A six day race riot in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Watts. The riots left 34 dead and more than 1,000 injured. -
MLK Shot
Martin Luther King, at age 39, is shot as he stands on the balcony outside his hotel room. James Earl Ray a racist is convicted of the shooting of MLK Jr. -
Alexander vs. Holmes county board of Education
In Mississippi they were coming up with a new plan to put to action in 33 Mississippi school districts. They made these black and white schools. This didn't go over to well. Many of the people in Mississipp didn't like this idea at all, but they went along with it anyways.
