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Civil Rights Through the Year
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Lynching
Willie Carlisle was murdered in Lafayette, Alabama -
Black Acting
1950, Hazel Scott became the first black performer to have her own network musical variety show. -
Giving Back
Ruby Blackburn established the Georgia League of Negro Women Voters. -
Segregation
8-year old girl, Linda Brown of Topeka, KA, she lives three blocks from an all white school but she has to ride a bus to the other side of town to go to her black school. Her father sures the school board of Topeka and the U.S. Supreme court decides to hear it. -
Murder
Ruby McCollum, an African-American woman, went on trial at the Suwanee County Courthouse in Live Oak, Florida, for the murder of Dr. C. LeRoy Adams, a white physician and state senator who was the father of her youngest child. -
Malcom X
Malcom was an African American Muslim minister and a human civil rights activist. In 1952, he became one of the leaders of the Nation of Islam to improve spritiual, mental, social, and economic condition of African Americans in the U.S -
Protesters
The Highlander Folk School of Monteagle, Tenn., which runs workschops on organizing protests for individuals such as union organizers, issues invitation to civil rights workders. -
Supreme Court Acts
Supreme Court orders reargument in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka. -
Brown v. Board of Education
The Supreme Court decides "seperate but equal" schools are inherently unequal. The decision declares legal school segregation inconstitutional. -
White House Conference
At a White House press conference, Chicago Defender reporter Ethel L. Payne questions President Eisenhower about his plans for ending segregation in interstate travel. -
Stop the Buses
M.L.K.J. leads the Montgomery Bus Boycott. -
Quack-Quack Seat Back!
Rosa Parks defends her seat on a public bus. -
Bus Boycott Bombing
Whites angry about the MBB, bomb four African-American churches and the homes of civil rights leaders Martin Luther King and E.D. Nixon. -
Blacks in Alabama Schools
On court orderm the University of Alabama admits its first African- American student, Autherine Lucy, but finds legal ways to preven her attendance. -
Helping Lead the Way
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) was born and headquartered in Atlanta in 1957 -
Congress Helps Out
Congress passes the Civil Rights Act of 1957 -
Cooper v. Aaron
The Supreme Court rules that a threat of mob violence is not reason enough to delay school desegregation. -
Laws
Pupil Placement Boards were created with the power to assign specific students to particular schools -
King Visits India
Martin Luther King and his wife visit India. -
Virginia Fights the Governent
Virginia supreme court rules on January 19 that school-closing law passed in 1956 violates the state constitution.
