Civil rights movement

Civil RIghts Movement

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    Greensboro Sit-ins

    The Greensboro sit-ins were a series of nonviolent protests in 1960 which led to the Woolworth's department store chain reversing its policy of racial segregation in the Southern United States.
  • Brown V.S. The Board of Education.

    Brown V.S. The Board of Education.
    brown tried to get his daughter into a white school even though she was black. after the school refused her admition he started an antidisestablishmentarianism against the school board stating that all children should be allowed in any school. he thought that segragation in schools was outrageous. he ended up winning and schools were integrated.
  • Little Rock Nine

    Little Rock Nine
    The Little Rock Nine were a group of African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957.
  • Emmett Till

    Emmett Till
    an African-American boy who was murdered in Mississippi at the age of 14 after reportedly flirting with a white woman.
  • Rosa Parks

    Rosa Parks
    rosa parks was getting on the bus after a long day at work. she sat down in one of the front rows of seats and when a white man told her to give up her seat, she refused. she was then arrested for failing to obey the driver's seat assignments. she was fine $14.00 but got it appealed. this event started the Bus Boycott of 1955.
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    Bus Boycott

    This was a campiagn that started when rosa parks was arrested. they day after rosa was arrested there was a message sent out to all negroes in the area telling them to not ride the bus.
  • The Formation of The S.C.L.C.

    The Formation of The S.C.L.C.
    The Southern Christian Leadership Conference is an African-American civil rights organization. S.C.L.C. was closely associated with its first president, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The S.C.L.C. had a large role in the American Civil Rights Movement.
  • freedon riders

    freedon riders
    Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States in 1961 and following years to challenge the non-enforcement of the United States Supreme Court decisions Irene Morgan v.
  • Freedom Riders

    Freedom Riders
    Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States in 1961 and following years to challenge the non-enforcement of the United States Supreme Court decisions Irene Morgan v. Commonwealth of Virginia 1946 and Boynton v. Virginia 1960, which ruled that segregated public buses were unconstitutional. The Southern states had ignored the rulings and the federal government did nothing to enforce them. The first Freedom Ride left Wash
  • James Meredith, University of Mississippi

    James Meredith, University of Mississippi
    On May 31, 1961, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund filed suit in the U.S. District Court, alleging that the university had rejected Meredith only because of the color of his skin, as he had a highly successful record.
  • "fire hoses"

    "fire hoses"
    The Birmingham campaign was a movement organized by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) to bring attention to the unequal treatment that black Americans endured in Birmingham, Alabama. Led by Martin Luther King, Jr. and others, the spring 1963 campaign of nonviolent direct actions culminated in widely publicized confrontations between black youth and white civic authorities, and eventually led the municipal government to change the city's discrimination laws.
  • Letter From Birmingham Jail

    Letter From Birmingham Jail
    The Letter from Birmingham Jail (also known as "Letter from Birmingham City Jail" and "The Negro Is Your Brother") is an open letter written on April 16, 1963, by Martin Luther King, Jr. The letter defends the strategy of nonviolent resistance to racism, arguing that people have a moral responsibility to break unjust laws. After an early setback, it enjoyed widespread publication and became a key text for the American civil rights movement of the early 1960s.
  • March on Washington

    March on Washington
    The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (or "The Great March on Washington", as styled in a sound recording released after the event) was one of the largest political rallies for human rights in United States history and called for civil and economic rights for African Americans.
  • 24th Amendment

    24th Amendment
    Poll taxes appeared in southern states after Reconstruction as a measure to prevent African Americans from voting, and had been held to be constitutional by the Supreme Court of the United States in the 1937 decision Breedlove v. Suttles.
  • Civil Rights Act 1964

    Civil Rights Act 1964
    The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was a landmark piece of civil rights legislation in the United States that outlawed major forms of discrimination against racial, ethnic, national and religious minorities, and also women.
  • Malcom X Shot

    Malcom X Shot
    On February 21, 1965, as Malcolm X prepared to address the Organization of Afro-American Unity in Manhattan's Audubon Ballroom, a disturbance broke out in the 400-person audience—a man yelled, "Nigger! Get your hand outta my pocket!" As Malcolm X and his bodyguards moved to quiet the disturbance,[158] a man seated in the front row rushed forward and shot him once in the chest with a double-barreled sawed-off shotgun.
  • "bloody sunday"

    "bloody sunday"
    On March 7, 1965, an estimated 525 to 600 civil rights marchers headed east out of Selma on U.S. Highway 80. The march was led by John Lewis of SNCC and the Reverend Hosea Williams of SCLC, followed by Bob Mants of SNCC and Albert Turner of SCLC. The protest went smoothly until the marchers crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge and found a wall of state troopers waiting for them on the other side. Sheriff Jim Clark had issued an order for all white males in Dallas County over the age of twenty-one to
  • Voting Rights Act

    Voting Rights Act
    The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is a landmark piece of national legislation in the United States that outlawed discriminatory voting practices that had been responsible for the widespread disenfranchisement of African Americans in the U.S.
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    Watts Riots

    The Watts Riots took place in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles from August 11 to 17, 1965. The six-day riot resulted in 34 deaths, 1,032 injuries, 3,438 arrests, and over $40 million in property damage. It was the most severe riot in the city's history until the Los Angeles riots of 1992.
  • Stokely Carmichael

    Stokely Carmichael
    Stokely Carmichael was a Trinidadian-American black activist active in the 1960s American Civil Rights Movement. Growing up in the United States from the age of eleven, he graduated from Howard University and rose to prominence in the civil rights and Black Power movements, first as a leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and later as the "Honorary Prime Minister" of the Black Panther Party.
  • The Black Panthers

    The Black Panthers
    Founded in Oakland, California by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale on October 15, 1966, the organization initially set forth a doctrine calling primarily for the protection of African-American neighborhoods from police brutality.[
  • MLK Assasination

    MLK Assasination
    He was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee on April 4, 1968, at the age of 39. King was rushed to St. Joseph's Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 7:05PM that evening. 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.
  • Civil Rights Act of 1968

    The Civil Rights Act of 1968, also known as the Indian Civil Rights Act of 1968,) was a landmark piece of legislation in the United States that provided for equal housing opportunities regardless of race, creed, or national origin.
  • "The Whole World is Watching"

    "The Whole World is Watching"
    "The whole world is watching" was an iconic chant by antiwar demonstrators outside the Chicago Hilton Hotel during the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.