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Brown vs. Board of Education Topeka
This was an event where a black reverend appealed to the court that his daughter shouldnt have to travel farther to go to school when a non-black school is nearby their house. The supreme court ruled to desegregate all schools. -
Emmett Till Murder
Emmett Till was a 14 year old African-American boy. While in Mississippi, he flirted with a white woman. The wife's husband kidnapped the kid and, after gouging out one of his eyes, shot him through the head and threw his body in the TallaHatchie River. -
Rosa parks, the story behind the bus.
Rosa initiated a new era in the American quest for freedom and equality, by just sitting down on a bus. She refused to give up her seat when told to move to the back by a white man. She started a revolution. -
SCLC
SCLC stands for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. This was an African-American civil rights organization. It had a large role in the American Civil Rights Movement. Closely related with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, it helped change the ways blacks were treated in the USA. -
Little Rock 9
Central high school was the site of forced school desegregation during the civil rights movement. 9 black students, known as the little rock 9 were denied entrance to the school in defiance of the 1954 decsion of the supreme court. this provoked a showdown between the governer Orval Faubus and president Dwight Eisenhower. -
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Greensboro sit ins
Greensboro sit ins were a series of non violent protests in 1960 which led to the woolworth department store chain reversing its policy of racial segregation in the southern united states -
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Freedom Riders
The freedom riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States to challenge the rule of segregated public buses. -
James Meredith
James Meredith was the first African-American student to be admitted to the segregated University of Mississippi. His goal was to put pressure on the Kennedy Administration. -
Letter from Birmingham Jail
When King was arrested for his 13th time, he composed a letter from Birmingham Jail which responds to accusations on his movement. King argues that the crisis of racism is to urgent. -
Birmingham Protests
Protest march on Birmingham and police sprayed hoses and attacked the protestors with German Shepards. Two days later, the story was put into "USA today". -
March on Washington
250,000 participants marched and advocated for jobs and freedom. Martin Luther King Jr. had his famous "I had a dream" speech on the same day. -
The 24th amendment to the constitution
This prohibited poll taxes on voting. Poll taxes were intended to keep African-Americans from voting. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
This act outlawed major forms of descimination against racial, ethnic, national, and religious minorites. It ended many forms of segregation in the United States. -
Malcolm X shot
Malcolm X was an African-American nationalist and religious leader. On Feburary 21st, 1965, Malcolm was assassinated by rival Black Muslims while addressing his Organization of Afro-American Unity at the Audubon Ballroom in Washington Heights. -
Bloody Sunday
Bloody Sunday was when 600 marchers, protesting the death of Jimmie Lee Jackson and ongoing exclusion from the electoral process, were attacked by state and lcoal police with billy clubs and tear gas. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
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 in Los Angeles in 1965. There were 34 deaths, 1,032 injuries, 3,438 arrests, and over $40 million in property damage. IT was the biggest riot in the city until 1992. -
Formation of The Black Panthers
The Black Panther Party was an African-American revolutionary socialist organization active in the United States from 1966 until 1982. The Black Panther Party achieved national and international notoriety through its involvement in the Black Power movement and U.S. politics of the 1960s and 1970s. -
Stokely Carmichael's "Black Power" speech.
On April 19th, 1967, Stokely Carmichael gave a speech in Seattle at the Garfield High School about "Black Power". A leader of the (SNCC) and later the Black Panthers, Carmichael coined the phrase "Black Power" and in this speech discussed the relationships between language, identity, and power. -
Martin Luther King Assassination
Martin Luther King 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. -
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 Act was signed into law during the King assassination riots by President Lyndon B. Johnson, who had previously signed the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act into law. -
"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. The event was broadcast from taped footage on the night of Wednesday, August 28, the third day of the convention. Demonstrators took up the chant as police were pulling some of them into paddy wagons, "each with a superfluous whack of a nightstick," after the demonstration blocked Michigan Avenue in front of the hotel.
