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Brown V. Board of Education
The Brown V. Board of Education was a landmark in the United States Supreme Court case, the court made state laws establishing separate public schools for white and black people. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a political protest against the racial segregation on the public transit system, the African Americans refused to ride city buses after Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to sit in the back of the bus. -
The Little Rock Nine
The Little Rock Nine were a group of nine black students who enrolled at an all-white High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. Their attendance at the school was a test of Brown v. Board of Education. The first day of classes at Central High, Governor Orval Faubus called in the Arkansas National Guard to block the black student's entry into the high school. Later that month, President Dwight Eisenhower sent in federal troops to escort the Little Rock Nine into the school. -
Civil Rights Act of 1957
The Civil Rights Act of 1957, was primarily a voting rights bill, was the first federal civil rights legislation passed by the U.S. Congress since the Civil Rights Act of 1875. -
Hebrew Benevolent Congregation Temple bombing
The Hebrew Benevolent Congregation Temple bombing happened in Atlanta during the Civil Rights Movement and hit a Jewish church for African Americans -
Freedom Riders
In May, many angry white people blocked a Greyhound bus carrying black and white passengers through Alabama. The attackers threw rocks and bricks, slashed tires, smashed windows, and lobbed a firebomb through a broken window. As smoke and flames filled the bus, the mob barricaded the door. An exploding fuel tank and warning shots from the state troopers forced the crowed back and allowed the riders to escape the inferno. Even then some were attacked with baseball bats as they fled. -
Stand in Schoolhouse door
African Americans attempted to desegregate the University of Alabama but the governor of Alabama didn't let that happen so he brought state troopers to block the entrances and this soon lead to "Brown V. Board of Education." -
March on Washington
The March on Washington was the biggest protest march that occurred in August 1963, when 250,000 people gathered in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C.,they marched for Jobs and Freedom, the event was to draw attention to continuing challenges faced by African Americans a century after emancipation. It was also the occasion of Martin Luther King Jr.’s now-iconic “I Have A Dream” speech. -
Selma to Montgomery Marches
The Selma to Montgomery march was another protest that occurred in 1965 in Alabama that walked through other crowds of racist people, they were getting beat but still marching their way to Montgomery. -
Watts Riots
It all started when two white police officers saw that a black male had been driving while he was drunk and a group of protestors began to gather around to see that during the arrest the cops were abusing the drunk driver and a riot soon began.
