Civil Rights Movement

By mwozniakk

  • Truman Signs Executive Order

    Trman signed the executive order 9981. This order says, "It is hereby declared to be the policy of the President that there shall be equality of treatment and opportunity for all persons in the armed services without regard to race, color, religion, or national origin."

  • Spreme Court Wins

    The Supreme Court wins the trial of Brown v.s. The Board of Education of, Topeka Kans. They decided that segregation in school was " unconstitutional". Then in the Plessy v.s. Ferguson case they decided that the "equal but seperate" law was unfair because they never had anything equal.

  • Emmett Till

    In August of 1955 Emmett Till was visiting his famiy in Mississippi. He supposidly whistled at a women and he was beaten, shot, then thrown in the Tallahatchie River. Two white men were accussed of this crime yet they got away with it. Because of this unfair case the civil rights was greatly affected.

  • Rosa Parks stands her ground.

    Rosa Parks was sitting on a public bus when a white man came up to her and told her to move because he wanted that seat. Rosa Parks refused to give her seat to the man.

  • Martin Luther King Jr. elected as president of the MIA

    Martin Luther Kind Jr. was chosen to be president of the Montgomery Imrovement Association.

  • Southern Christian Leadership Conference is established

    January through February 1967 Martin Luther King Jr., Charles K. Steele, and Fred L. Shuttlesworth established the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. The SCLC helped a great deal with the Civil Rights Movement.

  • Four Students initiated sit-ins

    In 1960 four students from the all black North Carolina Agricultuaral and Technical College initiated sit-ins at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter.

  • Voting Rights

    In the mid 1960's a big amount of black voters were disfanchised. Americans initiated local efforts to excersize the right to vote. Many of the people who did had to deal with many whites being rude and violent agaisnt the black voters.

  • 15 Years after Brown

    15 years after Brown only 1 percent of black students in the deep south states were attending public schools which included whites. The other 99% still stayed segregated.