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brown v. board of education
court ruled segregating kids in schools was unconstitutional -
order 10590
president Eisenhower sighs a bill that states the government will help decrease discrimination in employment -
Rosa parks bus seat
Rosa parks refused to give up a seat she was sitting in that was reserved for a different race -
little rock 9
9 black kids went to a white school despite protest -
bethal baptist church
a predominantly black church was bombed by the kkk -
woolworths sit in
black students protested a diner not serving them by sitting and taking up the seats in the diner for 6 months -
emergence of freedom riders
African Americans facing segregation sat on busses with white people freely to protest segregation on busses -
selma march
civil rights march over voting rights -
march of washington
the single biggest gathering for civil rights at its time -
bloody sunday
at the start of the Selma march a blockade of police injure many protesters -
Kenneth Gibson
first black mayor of new jersey -
Chicago seven
The Chicago Seven, which included Bobby Seale, Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, David Dellinger, Tom Hayden, Rennie Davis, John Froines, and Lee Weiner, are acquitted of conspiracy charges. but five of the seven—Davis, Dellinger, Hayden, Hoffman, and Rubin—are convicted of crossing state lines to incite a riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention. They are sentenced to five years in prison and fined $5,000 each. The convictions are later overturned in 1972 by the United States Court of Appeal -
first black convention
the first black convention takes place in Indiana about 10,000 people attend -
children's defense fund
Civil rights activist Marian Wright Edelman establishes The Children’s Defense Fund as a voice for poor, minority, and disabled children -
Barbra Jordan
Barbara Jordan was a congresswoman representing Texas, she was the first Black woman to deliver the keynote address at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.