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Brown vs. Board of Education Topeka
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 -
Emmett Till
(July 25, 1941 – August 28, 1955) was an African-American boy who was murdered in Mississippi at the age of 14 after reportedly flirting with a white woman. Till's murder was the main cause to start the African-American Civil Rights Movement and his story was spread world wide for everyone to know how badly African-Americans were treated over the littlest of issues as to 'flirting' with a white woman. -
Rosa Parks and the bus boycott
Rosa Parks, a 42-year-old African American woman boarded this Montgomery City bus to go home from work. On this bus on that day, Rosa Parks did not give up her seat to a white man, she was arrested and convicted of violating the laws of segregation, known as “Jim Crow laws.” Parks appealed her conviction and her story was a help to the legality of segregation. -
The Formation of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
SCLC is an African-American civil rights organization. Its first persident was Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Their goal was to form an organization to control and support nonviolent action as a method of desegregating bus systems across the South. -
Central High School intergration
Central High School was the site of forced school desegregation during the American Civil Rights Movement. Students were prevented from entering the racially segregated school by Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus, and then attended after the intervention of President Eisenhower. -
Woolworth's sit-in
The Greensboro sit-ins were a series of nonviolent protests. The NAACP Youth Council sponsored sit-ins at a Dockum Drug Store in downtown Wichita, Kansas. After three weeks, the movement successfully got the store to change it's policy, and soon afterward all Dockum stores in Kansas were desegregated. This movement was quickly followed in the same year by a sit-in at a Katz Drug Store in Oklahoma City, which also was successful. -
Freedom Riders
Were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States. The Freedom Riders' journey were to have at least one interracial pair sitting in adjoining seats, and at least one black rider sitting up front, the rest of the team would sit scattered throughout the rest of the bus. 'Whites' were so against this that they would go to lengths of burning down the buses! -
James Meredith, University of Mississippi
an American civil rights movement figure, a writer, and a political adviser. he was the first African American student admitted to the segregated University of Mississippi, an event that was a flashpoint in the American civil rights movement. His goal was to put pressure to enfore Civil Rights for African Americans. -
Martin Luther King arrested, "letter from Birmingham jail"
King wrote the letter after being arrested for his part in a planned non-violent protest by the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights. King's letter was a response to a statement made by eight white Alabama men titled, "A Call for Unity" against King and his belifes. -
Birmingham, Alabama protests- "fire hoses"- televised
Campaing to bring attention to the unequal treatments that Black Americans had to go through. Led by King, nonviolent direct actions publicized confrontations between black youth and white civic authorities, and eventually led the municipal government to change the city's discrimination laws on how Black Americans were treated. -
March on Washington
One of the biggest political rallies for human rights in United States history and for civil and economic rights for African Americans. Martin Luther King did his famous speech "I have a dream" in front of about 200,000 to 300,000 people estimated that 75–80% of the marchers were black and the rest were white and non-black minorities. Based off of "jobs and freedom".
