Civil rights movement of the 50s, 60s and 70s

By Angie0407

  • Brown v. Board of Education

    Brown v. Board of Education
    NAACP combine 5 cases and took them to the Supreme Court. 9-0 to over ride the separate Equad doctrine. However many of those black students will never go to school with white students.

  • Murder of Emmitt Till

    Murder of Emmitt Till
    Emmett Till was a 14 year old boy that was brutally killed by Roy Bryant and his brother in law, J.W Milian. It was August 25th when Emmett and his cousins went to the grocery store to by soda pop. The lady at the register was a white lady, and she had said that Emmett had sexually harassed her and that he had grabbed her. Which is a lie. Emmett had only whistled at the lady. A couple days later he was killed. He was then found 3 days later in the River.

  • Rosa Parks/ Bus boycott

    Rosa Parks/ Bus boycott
    Rosa is arrested for failing to move seats on the bus. She is fined $10. MILK Jr. and church sent out flyers to boycott the bus system on Dec. 5th. The bus ran empty for 381 days. The Supreme Court ruled the bus had to let blacks ride.

  • Southern Christian leadership conference

    Southern Christian leadership conference
    A meeting for black church pastures is coordinate
    events for blacks people, MLK was elected the first president. This group used nonviolent strategy. This group also registered blacks to vote

  • Little Rock Nine

    Little Rock Nine
    9 students wanted to go to the whitle school.
    The Governor of Arkansas call out the National Guard to stop them. President Eisenhower calls1200 militar men 46 to escort these students from have to class, 1959 all schools fully Integrated.

  • Greensboro Sit ins

    Greensboro Sit ins
    Go to woolworths by y items. Then go sit at the
    lunch counter. They were refused service a were told to leave but they refused and they stayed. Day after day, the came and did the same-thing. The amount of students over the days to 1,000.
    -They lost grew $1.8 million so they just served the black community.

  • Freedom Riders

    Freedom Riders
    A diverse group of volunteers from 39 states, most Were college students. Arrived in Anniston, Alabama blocked by KKK.Tires slashed, fire bombed, buses burned and beating, town after town.

  • March on Washington

    March on Washington
    250,000 People marched in washington D.C. It was Peacetul and respectful protest for their jobs and freedor.
    Martin Luther king su. gave his "I have a dream speech.” MLK was the last speaker of the day.

  • Civil Rights Act (1964)

    Civil Rights Act (1964)
    Enabled He federal Government to prevent racial discriminated and segregation based on race, color, religion ,or national origin in private businesses at public facilities.

  • Assassination of Malcom X

    Assassination of Malcom X
    Civil Rights leader who was part of the Nation of Islam. He wanted black people to believe in themselves and start their own businesses. He was shot 21 times. Thomas Hagan convicted of killing him.

  • Selma to Montgomery Marches (Bloody Sunday)

    Selma to Montgomery Marches (Bloody Sunday)
    Black marchers wanted to wall 54 miles to Montgomery to register to vote. At the end of Edmond bridge troopers brutally beat them.

  • Voting Rights Act

    Voting Rights Act
    Enabling the right to vote of African Americans any discrimination in voting. Now a federal matter not state.

  • Assassination of Martin Luther King

    Assassination of Martin Luther King
    Striking sanitation workers protest in Memphis. When back to the motel. Shot lower right side of his face, with Remington Rifle. James Earl Ray sentenced to 99 years. His death marks the end of the Civil Rights movement.