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Brown v Board of education
Brown v board of education-supreme court decision -
Emmet Till
-14 year old boy from Chicago, visiting family
-accused of whistleling at a white women
- Roy Bry and JE milann kidnap, beat, shot, killed, and then threw Emmets body in the river
-Maime Till, Emmet’s Mother had an open casket funeral.
-Bith men stood trial, and found not guilty
-€ Spark to start the Civil Rights movement -
Bus Boycott
-Rosa Parks refused to move seats and she is arrested
-Bus boycott begins and last 381 days
Martin Luther King emerges as the leader of the bus boycott
1st large scale demonstration-non violent in the US -
Southern Christian Leadership
-Started after the bus boycott to organize protest
-Matin Luther King was elected as President
-organized protest around the south to coordinate events, such as greensboro sit ins, March on Washington and Selma
- after MLK’s assassination it declines
-still exists today -
Little Rock Nine/ Arkansa
-Testing Brown v Board of education decision
-9 students were vetted to undergo this test
-airborne lol escorted students to class
-following year all Public Schools closed (1958)
-Aug 29, 1959- schools reopened -
Greensboro, North Carolina
-4 college students sat down at a Lunch counter at Woolworth’s to be served. They were refused service, Continued to “sit-in” and others joined, the protest spread to other towns and forced change -
Student Nonviolemt Coordinating Committee
Youth group of students remained fiercely independent of MLK and SCLC, generating their own projects and strategies. The two organizations worked side by side throughout the early years of the civil rights movement. This group was the second half of the freedom riders and were a part of the March to Selma -
Freedom Riders
2 week bus trip to the Deep South, to deliberately violate Jim Crow Laws. It was organized by CORE. The buses were burned and riders beaten by the KKK. Nov 1, 1961 white and colored sings are removed from bus stations and lunch counters -
March on Washington
For Jobs and freedom.
Was to advocate for the civil and economic rights of African Americans. 250,000 people were in attendance at the Lincoln Memorial. MLK was the last to speak, and gave his “I Have A Dream Speech” 70-80% of Marchers were black. Ended up helping pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964. -
Civil RightsnAct of 1964
-can NOT be refused service
Forbids employers and labor unions to discriminate against any person on grounds of race, color, religion, sex, physical disability or age in job related matters matters
-Prohibits discrimination against race, color, religion, national origin, sex, or physical disability -
March on Selma/ Bloody Sunday
600 students March from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama to get the right to vote. They wales 54 miles and were stopped at the bridge. Seen on national television. LBJ order the passage of 1964 voting right law. 2nd March took place March 21-24 days w 25,000 Marchers including MLK -
Voting Rights Act 1965
One of the most comprehensive pieces of legislation in history. Blacks were registering to vote and being elected to public office. signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson, aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels