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The United States Military abolish segregation.
During the end of world war two, the United States military started to experiment with desegregated military after their was a shortage of supplies and troops during the Battle of the Bulge. Many of the generals in that battle said that" there was no reason for black men to not fight with white men," and that " they fought very well." Shortly after this on July 26th 1948, Truman would sign a bill desegregating the military. -
Brown vs the Board of Education
This was a trial that was held in Topeka by the supreme court in 1952 through 1954. during this trial brown was fighting for the unjust separation of races in the school system. Although causes were like this before him he was the first one to succeed and when the case. This case caused backlash in the south as many were appalled with the courts ruling. -
Emmett Till murder
Emmett Till was a fourteen year old boy from Chicago. In 1955 he went with his family to Mississippi. He whistled at a white woman inside a store and two men by the name of Roy Bryant And J.W Milam decided to take Emmett and beat and torture him until he was finally thrown into the river with a cotton gin and barbed wire attached to him, resulting in his death. After a trial with an all white jury they were found not guilty of the murder which resulted in much outrage in the black community. -
The Montgomery Bus Boycott
In 1955 after a woman named Rosa Parks decided to not yield her seat to a white man she was arrested and fined. This resulted in a large boycott of the bus company in Montgomery whose biggest customers was the black community. this lasted nearly a year until the bus company finally was given order by the supreme court to uphold the rule that blacks had to give up their seats for whites.
This event put Martin Luther king in the spotlight and made the civil rights movement a widely known protest. -
The Little Rock Nine
After segregation in schools was put as unconstitutional, nine black students were allowed to try and integrate into Central High School in Little Rock Arkansas. This caused so much outrage that the state appointed the national guard to make sure they didn't get into the school. As a result, Eisenhower told the U.S 101 Air Division to escort them into the school. This escort continued to happen for almost a full year. -
The Sit in Campaign
The next move in the civil Rights Movement was to sit in the white areas of restaurant across the country. They faced immediate threats and brutally after people started doing this. Many were beaten and dealt with things like hot coffee, ketchup and plates and cups being thrown at them. Although the brutality was fierce they refused to retaliate. they were mostly arrested especial at the most famous of these sit ins, the Greensboro Sit in. -
The Freedom Riders
In the early sixties, integrated buses of black and white civil rights activist began making there journey to the south. they faced brutal attacks on them, one bus had its tires slashed and its passengers were forced to escape when a bomb was thrown into the bus blowing it up. this was done by white supremacist groups and forced the supreme court to take action. -
The March on Washington
This march was one of the biggest gatherings for the civil rights movement as it saw over two hundred thousand black and white Americans gather to protest for equality. This event is where Martin Luthur King would give his historic," I have a dream" speech and rally many Americans. This forced the Civil Rights act of 1964 and was the turning point for the movement. -
Malcolm X assassination
Malcolm X was a African American Activist who fought that action needed to be taken through not only protest, but even violence for equality to occur. He clashed with MLK and on a faithful night where he was given a speech, he was rushed by 3 gunman and after fifteen shots he was pronounced dead at the age of 39. This took the African American community by storm and made many Americans outraged and devastated. -
Martin Luther King assassination
As the Civil Rights movement was seeing change and were finally achieving equality, tragedy struck. after a rally, in his hotel room balcony he was shoot by a gunman ending his life. This hit America hard and made many outraged and hurt by the death of one of the greatest black Activist of the time. his legacy lived on however as the world today is much more equal than back then.
