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The Montgomery Bus Boycott
Rosa Parks had a court apperance,several african american leaders fromed the montgomery improvement association to run the boycott and to negotiate with leaers for an end to segregation.Martin Luther King, Jr, was elected as a pastor at the age of 26.King, believed that the only way to end segregation and racism was through nonviolent passive resistance. He says that "we need to use the weapon of love".This event happened because whites and African Amercans did not like each other. -
The Little Rock 9
The school board in Little Rock, Arkansas won a court order requiing that nine african american students to be admitted to central high, a school with 2,000 white students.The Arkansas governor, Orval Faubus, ordered troops to prevent the nine students from entering the school.Eisenhower tries to prevent it. A civil rights act of 1957 was created to protect african americans to vote -
Civil Rights Act of 1957
intended to protect the right of African Americans to vote .Eisenhowe believed that it wsas his responsibility to protect voting rights.Democrat, Lyndon Johnson put together a compromise to enable the act to pass.it created the Unites states commission on civil rights to investigate allegations of denial of voting rights.After the bill was passed the SCLC had a campaign to register 2 million new afircan american voters. -
The Sit-in Movement
Four young african americans- Josepeh Mcneil,Ezell Blair, Jr David Richmond and Franklin McCain- enrolled at north carolina agricultural and technical college.they talked about the civil rights movements and Mcneil suggested a sit-in at thw whites only lunch counter. They sat in front of a counter until they got served the same as the whites. started off with 4 students and went up to 300 students.Sit ins spread out to 54 cities in nine states and increased more.then made their own organization -
The Freedom Riders
teams of african americans and white volunteers,to travel into the south to draw attention to its refusal to intergrate bus terminals.First boarded severeal southbound ineterstate buses.they got attacked by an angrey white mob.Kennedy promised to support the civil rights movement as a preseident so that got alot of votes.kennedy got 40 african americans to a high leveled position into the government. -
James Meredith and the Desegregation of the University of Mississippi
An African American air force veteran names james meredith applied for a tranfer to the univrrtsity of misssissippi.chaos broke out on the campus. with 2 dead and hundrres wounded.President kennedy dispatched 500 fedreral marshals to escort meredith to the campus.Shortly after Meredith and the marshals arrived an aagry white mob attacked the campus and a full scale riot erupted -
Protests in Birmingham
In 1963,Martin luther king Jr. decided to launch demonstrations in BirminghamIn the spring of 1963.Public Safety Commissioner Bull Connor, had arranged for the attack on the Freedom Riders, who was now running for mayor. Eight days after the protests began, the king was arrested.After the kind was released, protest still grew so connor released police dogs, high powered hoses, and for cops to use clubs. -
The March on Washington
on August 28, 1963 more than 200,000 demonstrators of all races flocked to the nation’s capital.The audience heard speeches and sang hymns and songs as they gathered peacefully near the Lincoln Memorial. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
President kennedy was assassinated so the vice president Lyndon Johson took over. Lyndon Johnson was the one to sign the civil rights acts of 1964.The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was the most comprehensive civil rights law Congress had ever enacted.it allowed segregation illegal in most areas in the public. -
The Selma March
the King’s demonstrations in Selma led to the arrest of approximately 2,000 African Americans, including school children,by Sheriff Clark.To keep pressure on the president and Congress to act, Dr.King joined with SNCC activists and organized a “march for freedom” from Selma to the state capitol in Montgomery, a distance of about 50 miles. On Sunday, March 7, 1965, the march began. The SCLC’s Hosea Williams and SNCC’s John Lewis led 500 protesters toward U.S. Highway 80.A brutal attack occured. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 authorized the U.S. attorney general to send federal examiners to register qualified voters, by passing local officials who often refused to register African Americans. The law also suspended discriminatory devices, such as literacy tests, in counties where less than half of all adults had been registered to vote. -
Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
On April 4, 1968, as he stood on his hotel balcony in Memphis,Dr. King was assassinated by a sniper.Dr. King’s death touched off both national mourning and riots in more than 100 cities, including Washington, D.C.In the wake of Dr. King’s death, Congress did pass the Civil Rights Act of 1968. Killed by James Earl Bay.
