Civil Rights Movement - Anya Wyatt

Brown v. Board of Education

May 17, 1954

i. Plessy vs. Ferguson
ii. A young African American girl was denied admission to her neighborhood school because of her race.
iii. The Supreme Court ruled that segregation in public schools was unconstitutional

Rosa Parks

Dec 1, 1955

i. Rosa Parks challenged segregation by standing her ground when a white man insisted on her giving up her seat on the bus
ii. African Americans began to boycott Montgomery buses

Civil Rights Act of 1957

Aug 29, 1957

i. Congress
ii. It intended to protect the right of African Americans to vote

Little Rock

Sep 24, 1957

i. Little Rock, Arkansas won a court order to admit nine African American students to Central High School
ii. The government sent 1,000 troops to the school that stayed there for the rest of the school year

Sit-in in North Carolina

Feb 1, 1960

i. Greensboro, North Carolina
ii. Four students ordered coffee at a lunch counter and when the were denied service they stayed at the counter until it closed and announced they would keep coming back until they were given service

Segregation in Bus Terminals

Dec 5, 1960

i. Virginia
ii. In the court case Boynton v. Virginia, the Supreme Court ruled that it was illegal to segregate blacks from whites on public transportation

Attack of the Freedom Riders

May 14, 1961

i. They traveled to the south to draw attention to the south's refusal to intergrate bus terminals
ii. CORE, NAACP, ICC
iii. Whites were apart of the teams too

James Meredith

Sep 30, 1962

i. The governor of Mississippi denied his access to the university
ii. The government dispatched 500 federal marshals to escort Meredith to the campus

Medgar Evers Assassinated

Jun 12, 1963

i. He was an African American civil rights activist
ii. Evers was shot to death in Jackson, Mississippi by Byron De La Beckwith

The March on Washington

Aug 28, 1963

i. It was a way to gain more public support for the civil rights movement
ii. "I Have A Dream"

Poll Tax

Jan 23, 1964

i. Virginia
ii. The Poll Tax got abolished as a pre-conditioning for voting in federal elections

Freedom Summer

Jun 20, 1964

i. Mississippi
ii. Freedom Summer brought 1,000 young civil rights volunteers to Mississippi to work on projects

Civil Rights Act of 1964

Jul 2, 1964

i. President Kennedy
ii. It stated that you cannot discriminate someone based on their color, race, gender, religion or national origin

March to Selma

Mar 25, 1965

i. To get a new law passed
ii. Many men were attacked and beaten with clubs and cattle prods
iii. President Johnson proposed a new voting rights law

Voting Rights Act of 1965

Jul 9, 1965

i. Washington DC
ii. The senate passed the act which authorized the attorney general to send federal examiners to register qualified voters

Thurgood Marshall

Oct 2, 1967

i. He was the NAACP's chief counsel and director of its Legal Defense and Education Fund
ii. It was monumental because he was one of the first African Americans that was appointed a high level position in the federal government

The Assassination of Martin Luther King

Apr 4, 1968

i. As MLK Jr. stood on his balcony in Memphis, Tennessee, he was shot by a sniper and killed
ii. It had such a big impact on both races because some of these people were fighting for black rights and Martin Luther King had such a big impact on the civil rights movement. They had lost a great leader