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Brown vs Board of Education
This all happened because a black family had to drive a ways to go to an all black school. But there was a all white school right near them. They just found it that they had to go so far to go to a school even though there is a school right next to them. So they took this to court to try and desegregate schools and by the time it ended, they were able to win the case to desegregate courts. This went all the way to the supreme court. But a bunch of schools closed down because they didn't want to -
The Murder of Emmett Till
Emmett Till was a fourteen-year-old African American boy from Chicago who was brutally murdered in Mississippi after reportedly flirting with a white woman named Carolyn Bryant. So her husband Bryant found where Emmett lived and kidnapped him and brought him somewhere to beat him up very badly. They were just gonna beat him up, but he kept making fun of Bryant, so Bryant eventually killed him. Mrs Bryant said she made up her original accusations, making further discussion around Till’s death. -
Rosa Park Bus Incident
Rosa Parks was an African-American woman who sat in the front of the bus one day and that started the thing called the Montgomery Bus Boycott. During this time, the blacks had to enter through the back of the bus and had to sit in the back of the bus. But Rosa Parks finally said that she was gonna take a stand and she was gonna sit in the front of the bus. That's what she did she finally sat in the front and she was arrested right after. But she took a a stand for Civil Rights of Blacks. -
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Montgomery Bus Boycott
This all started after Rosa Parks sat in the front of the Bus. This was that most blacks stopped going on the bus and started finding other ways of transportation. Like for example, hitchhiking, getting a ride and just walking. They were making a stand against the busses. This really impacted the Bus companies because about 75% of the people who rode the bus were blacks. So Bus companies were losing more and more money. So the blacks got what they wanted after all that time. Desegregation on Bus -
The Temple Bombing
The president of the United States, Dwight Eisenhower, released a statement denouncing the bombing. Support poured in from around the world, helping to cover the costs of repair. The bombing had done about $100,000 in damage about three-quarters of a million dollars in today’s money. That support is why The Temple’s old social hall was named “Friendship Hall.” -
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Civil RIghts Sit ins
On February, 1st 1960, a couple of college students decided to sit at an only white lunch counter. To start a movement called sit ins. This was when blacks would go into restaurants and sit down and not move until they got served or arrested. And by the August of 1961 they had 70,000+ people doing this and about 3,000 of them were arrested, but they didn't stop here. Some people kept going until the Civil Rights act of 1964. The sit ins worked. After a while. -
Albany Movement
The residents of Albany, Georgia, launched an ambitious campaign to get rid of segregation in all of local life. The movement captured national attention when leaders invited MLK. Despite MLK involvement, the movement failed to secure concessions from local officials. People identified the movement as a formative learning experience for King. -
Freedom Summer
Summer of 1964, hundreds of Northern college students traveled to Mississippi to help register black voters and encourage participation in the Civil Rights movement. Under the direction of the Council of Federated, mostly the white students organized health clinics, established freedom schools to educate black school children and sponsored voter registration drives throughout the state. -
Civil Rights Act
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was signed into law by President Johnson. The act outlawed segregation in businesses such as theaters and restaurants. It banned discriminatory practices in employment and ended segregation in public places such as libraries and public schools. -
MLK's Nobel Prize
In 1964 Martin Luther King, Jr. was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his leadership of the Civil Rights movement and commitment to achieving racial justice through nonviolent action. Norway on behalf of the Civil Rights movement and pledged the prize money to the movement's continued development. King became one of the youngest man and the second black man to get the nobel prize.
