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Martin Luther King Assassination
Killed by a single shot which struck his face and neck. He was standing on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, where he had come to lead a peaceful march in support of striking sanitation workers. About an hour later, he was pronounced dead at 7:05 PM at St. Joseph Hospital. -
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Emmett Till
A 14 black young man that was murdered for "flirting" with a white cashier at a grocery store. Two white men kidnapped Till and murdered him. the men were trialed for murder, but the all white jury aquitted them.Till's murder and open casket funeral to simulate the emerging civil rights movement. -
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Brown vs. Board of Education in Topeka, KA
Linda Brown was denied her addmission to the local elementary school since she was of color. when her case was combined with several others it reached the Supreme court. And animously overruled the "seperate but equal" doctrine.
for the first time that de jure segregation in the public schools violated the principle of equal protection under the law guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Responding to legal and sociological arguments in 1955 schools must be unsegregated -
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Greensboro, North carolina Woolsworth sit in
Despite advances in the fight for racial equality
segregation was still the norm across the southern United States in 1960. Early that year, a non-violent protest by young African-American students at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro. Though many of the protesters were arrested for trespassing, disorderly conduct or disturbing the peace, their actions made an immediate and lasting impact, forcing Woolworth's and other establishments to change their segregationist policies -
Rosa Parks and the bus boycott
A black woman decided she didnt want to be forced to sit in the back of the bus so she sat in the front. She was asked to move, but since she decided to boycott and was arrested. But than released 2 days later. -
Little rock Arkansas- Central high school intergration
It is the day when Governor Orval Faubus moved the Arkansas National Guard in an effort to prevent nine African American students from integrating the high school. After several failed attempts to negotiate with Faubus. Eisenhower took action against the defiant governor to oversee the integration.Despite suffering constant torment and discrimination from their classmates, eight of the nine students completed the school year at Central High School. -
The formation of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
This formed after the end of the bus boycott. The SCLC brought together all the various strands of civil rights organisations and put them under one organisation. they used the word christian to make it spirital. White Americans to not stand by and meekly watch while wrongs were being committed against the black community. This point emphasised the belief by the SCLC that not all white Southerners were racist and gave the opportunity to bring whites on board the cause of the SCLC. -
Freedom Riders
Its started when a group of stdents from Nashville decided to desegregate the movie theaters and the school lunch lines. They were well prepared as they were trained in the discipline of non-violence by no on better than Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. himself. -
James Meredith, University of Mississippi
He goes to the university of mississippi to take action himself by entering Oxford and the university's campus in protest, with others. He was guarded twenty-four hours a day by reserve U.S. deputy marshals and army troops, and he endured constant verbal harassment from a minority of students. On August 18, 1963, Meredith fulfilled his childhood dream to graduate from the University of Mississippi with a degree in political science. -
Martin Luther King Arrested.
King was arrested for violating Alabama’s law against mass public demonstrations it took place just over a week after the campaign’s commencement, parading without a permit. While in jail he composed his response to a public letter from 8 clergymen King responded that We have waited 340 years for our constitutional and God-given rights. ...it is easy for those who have never felt the stinging darts of segregation to say "wait." -
Birmingham, Alabama protests-"fire hoses"- Televised
In the early 1960s, Birmingham was one of the most racially divided cities in the United States. Black citizens faced legal and economic disparities, and violent retribution when they attempted to bring attention to their problems. Protests in Birmingham began with a boycott meant to pressure business leaders to open employment to people of all races and end segregation in public facilities, restaurants, and stores. When business leaders resisted the boycott, -
"March on Washington"
The March on Washington for jobs and freedom took place in Washington and there were about 250,000 people, it was the largest demonstration ever seen in the nation's capital and one of the first to have extensive television coverage. -
24th Amendment to the Constitution
This was the right that allowed any one and everyone to vote for president and vice president no matter if they paid for toll taxes or any other tax for that matter. No one was to be denied the acsess of voting. -
Civil Rights Act 1964
The house voted to adopt the Senate-passed legislation, rather than insisting on a conference of the bill. President Johnson signed the bill into law. The Civil Rights Act made the future anti-discrimination legislation, including the voting rights Act of 1965. -
Malcom x Shot.
One week after Malcom's home was firebombed, He was shot to death by the Nation of Islam members while speaking at a rally of his organization in New York City. -
Bloody Sunday. Voting rights March.
On March 7, 1965, state troopers and a sheriff’s posse in Selma, Alabama attacked about 600 civil rights demonstrators taking part in a march between Selma and Montgomery, their state capital. The march was organized to promote black voter registration. -
Voting Rights Act
The Voting Rights Act, signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson, aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote under the 15th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. The act significantly made the franchise larger and is considered among the furthest pieces of civil rights legislation in U.S. history. -
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Watts Riots
In the prominate black Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles, racial tension reaches a breaking point after two white policemen fight with a black motorcycleist suspected of drunken driving. rioters eventually ranged over a 50-square-mile area of South Central Los Angeles, looting stores, torching buildings and beating whites as guns were fired at police and firefighters. Finally, with the help of thousands of national guardsmen, order was braught back to order on August 17. -
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Black Panther Party Formation
The messages across these organizations were the same high unemployment, bad housing, police brutality, poor health care, and inferior educational opportunities within the Black community. These groups were in an agreement on the symptoms but not too sure on how to solve the problems. -
"Black Power"- Stokely Carmichael
Stokely Carmichael spoke to an enthusiastic crowd at Garfield High School in Seattle, Washington. Later the Black Panthers, and Carmichael made up the phrase "Black Power" and in this speech he discussed the relationships between language, identity, and power. -
Civil Rights act 1968
The fair housing act. Congress passed the act in an effort to impose a solution to the problem of unlawful act in housing based on race, color, sex, national origin, or religion. Enabling persons in the protected classes to rent or own residential property in areas that were previously segregated -
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Democratic National Convention
Brought about by the Vietnam war policies of President Johnson, preformed the Democratic party to completely restored its rules for selecting presidential delegates opening up the political process to millions. The violence between police and anti-Vietnam war protesters in the streets and parks of Chicago.
