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Creation of the NAACP
The NAACP was created in 1909 by an interracial group consisting of W.E.B. Du Bois, Ida Bell Wells-Barnett, Mary White Ovington, and others concerned with the challenges facing African Americans, especially in the wake of the 1908 Springfield (Illinois) Race Riot. To make white people understand the need for racial equality. -
Scottsboro Boys
March 25 1931- Nine black men accused of raping two white women. They're hoboing, jumping on a train, between Chattanooga and Memphis. There were white men and black men. They got in a fight and the white men got beat up. The train pulls into Paint Rock, Alabama, where two white women get off the train and said they were raped by the black men. Ruby Bates and Victoria Price were hoboing as well. All of the black men were found guilty. Three times...75 years to death sentence. -
Jackie Robinson Breaks the Color Barrier
The Negro Leagues- Satchel Paige.A Negro player “with guts enough not to fight back”Not just playing. He was a tough player. He took the abuse, and he took the death threats. They didn’t want him to come back, and pass up Babe Ruth “Home-run King” -
Brown vs. Board of Education
Was a case based on 5 different cases that were based on the same topic: segregation in school. The most common one was that separate school systems for blacks and whites were inherently unequal, and thus violate the "equal protection clause" of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. They chose to desegregate schools. -
The Murder of Emmett Till
August 28, 1955- He was a 14 year old from Chicago, and he visited Money, Mississippi to see his family. They went to the Bryant store, and while he was there he whistled at a white women. Her husband found out, Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam tortured him, shot him in the head, and tied him to a heavy cotton gin fan and left him in the water. They disfigured him. He was only recognizable, because of the ring he was wearing. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
On December 1, 1955, four days before the boycott began, Rosa Parks, an African-American woman, refused to yield her seat to a white man on a Montgomery bus. She was arrested and fined. The boycott of public buses by blacks in Montgomery began on the day of Parks' court hearing and lasted 381 days. -
The Little Rock 9
Sep. 25 1957- They sent 9 black kids to desegregate a white school in Little Rock, Arkansas. They were suppose to go September 4rth, 1957, but they were prevented from entering the school by Governor Orval Faubus. Later, they went to the school, because President Dwight D. Eisenhower sent in federal troops to escort the “Little Rock Nine” into the school, and they started their first full day of classes on September 25. -
Ruby Bridges desegregate elementary school
She was a 6 year old girl was chose to desegregate a white elementary school. She went to the school, and she had to be good at school. She failed three subjects. She wasn’t allowed to go to lunch or recess, because she was black, and they didn’t want her to be picked on. -
Letter from a Birmingham Jail
It was written by Martin Luther King Jr. The letter defends the strategy of nonviolent resistance to racism. It says that people have a moral responsibility to break unjust laws and to take direct action rather than waiting potentially forever for justice to come through the courts. Responding to being referred to as an "outsider," King writes, "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere". -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is a landmark piece of civil rights legislation in the United States that outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. -
Assassination of Malcolm X
He was shot twice with sawed off shotguns, and was shot twenty times by two pistols. He died on the day he was gonna give a speech. He said hello to everyone, then there was a disturbance in the crowd. That was when he was killed. -
Creation of the Black Panthers
In October of 1966, in Oakland California, Huey Newton and Bobby Seale founded the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense. The Panthers practiced militant self-defense of minority communities against the U.S. government, and fought to establish revolutionary socialism through mass organizing and community based programs. -
Thurgood Marshall Named Supreme Court Justice
President Lyndon Johnson appoints U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Thurgood Marshall to fill the seat of retiring Supreme Court Associate Justice Tom C. Clark. On August 30, after a heated debate, the Senate confirmed Marshall’s nomination by a vote of 69 to 11. Two days later, he was sworn in by Chief Justice Earl Warren, making him the first African American in history to sit on America’s highest court. -
Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
Shortly after 6 p.m. on April 4, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was shot and mortally wounded as he stood on the second-floor balcony outside his room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tenn. He was pronounced dead at 7:05 p.m. at St. Joseph Hospital. -
Election of Barack Obama
January 20, 2009- He is the 44rth president, and he is the first black president of the United States.
