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Plessy Vs. Ferguson
In Louisiana, In an equeal but sperate time Plessy sat down in a whites only section on a railcar and got arrested. He went to court to fight it but the supreme court ruled it was equal, and sitll required black and whites seperate trains. -
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Civil Rights Movement: 1950-1970
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Linda Brown
(1951-1954) Topeka, Kansas and Washington D.C., A black eight year old lives walking distance from a school but has to take a bus to a different school because of segregation. Her father sues and segregation of public schools is ruled unconstitutional. -
Emmett Till
He said something to the owners wife when buying a candy bar at a local store. They took him out of his home and killed him then threw his body in the river. He had a funeral in Chicago and his mom had an open casket so the world could see what had been done to her son . The murderers where not charged with the murder. -
Montgomery "Bus Boycott" /Rosa Parks
In montgomery thousands were protesting segregation on buses because of what had happened to Rosa Parks. Martin Luther King made sure that no blacks rode the buses for a period of time until they would do somethihng about segregation on buses. Eventually they ruled that blacks would again ride the buses but on a non-segregated basis. -
Immigration of Little Rock Central High School
In little rock arkansas, The national guard and an angry mob stood between a black child and the all white little rock high school. They prevented the blacks from entering and threatened and harrassed them. Army soldiers would follow blacks around the school and protect them so that they could attend the school. -
Lunch Counter Sit-ins
Mostly during the winter of 1960 there was a series of blacks that would go to resturants that were segregating blacks and whites and just sit at the counters. The managers would tell them to leave that they were not going to serve them and whites would throw food and milkshakes on them. They would be them up and often call the cops on them. -
Freedom Rides
2 Groups left washing D.C. and pretested the violations on the non-segregation laws. They suffered from intimidation and harrassment. They rode around and told different contries about their violated rights. In the deep south they punctured the bus tires and set them on fire, In the second bus whites climbed aboard and beat the blacks. 32 patrol cars escorted them out to make sure nothing happened and then when the escort left the were all beaten until they lied in pools of blood. -
James Meredith
(-october 1st) Albany to Birmingham Alabama.
On september 10th the supreme court rules that the university of Mississippi must allow a black veteran, James, to attend. On september 26th governor Ross Barnell orders state troopers to prevent James from enter the Ole Miss's Campus. A riot outbreaks known as ole miss. On october 1st meredith becomes the first african american permited after kennedy orders U.S. Marshalls to protect him. -
Birmingham, Alabama: Demonstrations
They began protesting and boycotting trying to put an end to segregation in public facilities, restaurants, and stores, and in emplyment. High school protesters were sprayed down by a high pressure fire hose and many otheres were beaten. -
Birmingham Alabama: "Letter from a Birmingham Jail"
Martin luther gets arrested and writes this letter, "When you have seen hate filled policemen, curse, kick, and even kill your black brothers and sisters, and your first name becomes nigger your middle name becomes boy however old you are and you are haunted by day and night that the fact you are negro living at little spans, never knowing what's coming next then you will find why it is difficult to wait, -
Birmingham Alabama: Bombing of 16th St Baptist Church
A group pf girls had just finished their sunday school lessons and they were changing into their robes. They were all just attending sunday church none of them had marched, protested, or attended sit-ins. The KKK had placed a bomb that killed 4 children. It wasn't until now that whites had realized the amount of hate and violence blacks faced. -
Voting Rights Actions: Registration Drive
Summer of 1964, in Mississippi, Hundreds of students traveled the back roads of mississippi to help blacks register to vote. These people represented a cause for trouble. The blacks faced a great deal of danger they knew but were pressing for freedom. Whites did not approve of them voting and they did it anyway but they made it almost impossible for blacks to read the registration applications. -
Voting Rights Actions: Murder of Civil Rights Workers in Philadelphia, Mississippi
Three workers were hled in charge of speeding. 1st was Micheal Shwerner a social worker from NY. James Chainey 21, and andrew goodmen Ny helped 14 participants in the civil rights protest. The sheriff oredered the 3 of them to return to maridia, two cars followed them, 1 passed and slowed down they other came behind and boxed them in. They were shot to death bodies burried, and car burned. They tried the sheriff for the murders but he was not charged. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Washington D.C. The civil rights act of 1964 is passed and bans discrimination in employment and in public places. Riots outbreak in harlem and rochester New York. -
Murder of Jimmie Lee Jackson
In alabama the man tried to prevent his mother and grandfather from being beaten by police buring a raqid and was thrown to the grown beaten and shot in his side. He ran and fell between a curch and the postoffice. -
Bloody Sunday
While marching over Edmund Pettus Bridge in protest police stopped them and shot many shot/beat many people. There was blood all over the ground and the protestors were pushed back. -
Voting Rights March
Thousands of people, white and black, marched for the right to vote.Finally they got their right to vote. -
Loving Vs. Virginia
They rule laws against interracial marriage unconstitutional and blacks and white are now aloud to marry each other. -
Thurgood Marshall
The first african american appointed to the supreme court while in the supreme court. -
Martin Luther King Jr.
He is assassinated as he stands on the balcony outside his hotel room, Lorraine Motel in Mephis Tennessee -
Fred Hampton
Fred Hampton chairmen of illonois black panthers is shot and killed during a police raid. No one is ever held accountable for his murder.
