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Brown v. Board of Education(1)
The Supreme Court rules on the case Brown v. Board of Education. The chief justice in the case was Justice Earl Warren. His court’s decision was a unanimous 9-0 decision that said, “Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal." The decision overturned the Plessy vs. Ferguson decision in 1896, which allowed states to segregate schools. It was a victory for NAACP attorney Thurgood Marshall. It resolved six segregation cases from four states, Kansas, Virginia, Delaware and Kansas. -
Brown v. Board of Education(2)
This case took on segregation within school systems. Up until this case, many states had laws establishing separate schools for white students and another for black students. The ruling paves the way for large-scale desegregation. It allowed people of all colors to have an equal opportunity to a free and public education no matter where they lived or what their race was. -
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Civil Rights Movement
Brunner, Borgna, and Elissa Haney. "Civil Rights Timeline." Infoplease. Infoplease, n.d. Web. 29 May 2013. http://www.infoplease.com/spot/civilrightstimeline1.html. "Timeline." The Seattle Times. N.p., n.d. Web. 29 May 2013. http://seattletimes.com/special/mlk/king/timeline.html. PBS. PBS, n.d. Web. 29 May 2013. http://www.pbs.org/wnet/aaworld/timeline/modern_01.html. -
Little Rock Nine (3)
It was the first time since Reconstruction, the federal government uses the military to uphold African Americans' civil rights. Daisy Bates, an NAACP leader, advised and assisted the students and eventually had a state holiday dedicated to her. -
Little Rock Nine (2)
On September 24, President Eisenhower sent federal troops to Little Rock and took over the Arkansas National Guard, stripping Governor Faubus of his power. The transition was with struggle as the “Nine” suffered racial and physical abuse for the entire school year from white students. The moment helped motivate those within the Civil Rights Movement to fight even harder to combat similar injustices across the country. -
Liitle Rock Nine (1)
Known as the Little Rock Crisis, nine Black African-American students were prevented from entering Arkansas’ Little Rock Central High School until September 25, 1957. President Dwight Eisenhower would involve himself and warned that the Supreme Court’s decision of desegregated schools should not be ignored. Little Rock Mayor Woodrow Mann requested that President Eisenhower send troops to protect and escort the students inside safely. -
March On Washington (1)
More than 250,000 Americans gathered in Washington, D.C. at the Lincoln Memorial for a political rally known as the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. It was organized by a number of civil rights and religious groups. The event was designed to shed light on the political and social challenges African Americans continued to face across the country. The march ended with Martin Luther King Jr.’s "I Have a Dream" speech, a spirited call for racial justice and equality. -
March On Washington (2)
The march is widely credited as helping to pass the Civil Rights Act and the National Voting Rights Act. The march was also significant because both blacks and whites marched together for civil rights. -
Civil Rights Act (1)
The 1964 Civil Rights Act was a landmark in legislative attempts to improve the quality of life for African Americans and other minority groups. It opened the door for further progress by lessening racial restrictions on the use of public facilities, providing more job opportunities, strengthening voting laws, and limiting federal funding of discriminatory aid programs. President John F. Kennedy proposed it. -
Civil Rights Act (2)
It survived strong opposition from southern members of Congress and was then signed into law by Kennedy’s successor, Lyndon B. Johnson. It established a framework within the federal government for fighting discrimination by giving the U.S. Attorney General the power to file discrimination suits, expanding the power of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, and establishing the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to review employment discrimination complaints. -
Martin Luther King Jr. Assassination (1)
Civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was hit by a sniper's bullet. King had been standing on the balcony in front of his room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. In outrage of the murder, many blacks took to the streets across the United States in waves of riots. An escaped convict by the name of James Earl Ray was arrested, but many people believe he was innocent. MLK Jr. was the founder of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. -
MLK Jr. Assassination (2)
He led the civil rights movement since the mid-1950s, using a combination of powerful words and non-violent tactics such as sit-ins, boycotts and protest marches to fight segregation and achieve significant civil and voting rights advances for African Americans. The nation was in a period of national mourning that helped speed the way for an equal Housing Bill. -
Works Cited
Brunner, Borgna, and Elissa Haney. "Civil Rights Timeline." Infoplease. Infoplease, n.d. Web. 29 May 2013. http://www.infoplease.com/spot/civilrightstimeline1.html. "Timeline." The Seattle Times. N.p., n.d. Web. 29 May 2013. http://seattletimes.com/special/mlk/king/timeline.html. PBS. PBS, n.d. Web. 29 May 2013. http://www.pbs.org/wnet/aaworld/timeline/modern_01.html.
