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Brown v. Board of Education
Brown v. Board of education was Supreme Court landmark case that desegregated public schools. Linda brown had to walk 6 blocks every morning to be able to catch the bus even though there was a white school right down the road from her home. -
Emmett Till Murder
Emmett Till was a 14 year old boy from Chicago. He was kidnapped and murdered for talking "fresh" to a white woman. He was kidnapped by the womans husband and step brother Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam. He was found in the Tallahatchie River. His mother had an open casket funeral so everyone could see what they did to her boy. Close to 100,00 people attended Emmetts funeral. -
Rosa Parks & Montgomery Bus Boycott
Rosa parks refused to move from her seat on the bus as an act of peaceful protest. She refused to give her seat up to the white man. Because of this African Americans decided to boycott and not use the bus which caused bus companies to go out of business. -
Greensboro Woolworth's Sit-ins
4 college boys Ezell Blair Jr., David Richmond, Franklin McCain and Joseph McNeil went to the woolworth store and sat at the lunch counter. Only white people we allowed to sit at the counter. The boys sat at the counter and waited until they were served. People came up to them and yelled at them and all kinds of things yet they never moved nor did anything back to the people. The 4 boys sat there for 5 months 3 weeks and 3 days to be served. -
Freedom Rides
Freedom rides were groups of whites and african americans to ride through the segregated southern states. Purpose was to challenge segregation on interstate busses. Along the way they were shot at had fire thrown at them and their tires slashed. -
MLK's Letter from Birmingham Jail
On April, 16, 1963 Martin Luther King Jr. wrote a letter. That letter said Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly. Never again can we afford to live with the narrow, provincial "outside agitator" idea. It was supposably a response to a letter in the newspaper. -
March on Washington
250,000 people marched to washington on August, 28, 1963. The purpose of the march was to demand the end of segregation in defence industries. The people who called for this were Bayard Rustin, A. Phillip Randolph, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and a coalition of civil rights, labor and religious organizations. -
Birmingham Baptist Church Bombing
On September 15 1963 the KKK bombed the church killing 4 African American girls and injuring 22 other people. Robert E. Chambliss, Bobby Frank Cherry, Herman Frank Cash, and Thomas E. Blanton, Jr. they were all members of the KKK and were sentenced to life in prison.