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Brown vs Board of Education
On May 17, 1954 the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka was declared as a landmark of the United States Supreme Court. The Court declared that they would make it to were that black and white students went to separate public schools. They said it would be unconstitutional and be a state law. -
Emmett Till murdered
Fourteen-year-old Emmett till was an African American boy who was murdered because he whistled at a white woman. Two men by the name of J.W. Milam and Roy Bryant brutally murdered the bot then dumped him in the Tallahassee River. It took three days for the people to discover Emmett's body in the river. He was kidnapped by these two men for a small gesture to a women. -
Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat on the bus
Rosa Parks refuses to move from her seat on the bus to a white man. She was soon arrested for the crime of not giving up her seat on the bus and resisted to given into the whites. -
MLK's speeck Marks Beginning of Bus Boycotts in Montgomery
For 382 days, all African Americans and Martin Luther King Jr. included refused to ride any public buses. This caused a big turning point in the American civil rights movement. Martin Luther King Jr. voiced his thoughts to everyone that they were tired of being tortured and brutally beaten or having to give there hard work and time to the whites. They feel as if they have no rights other than what the whites tell them is okay. -
Victory for Montgomery Boycott
The Montgomery Bus Boycott had a victory on making the bus segregation illegal because Rosa Parks refused to move to the back of the bus and give her seat to a white man. -
Little Rock Central High School Integration
Nine black students were escorted by U.S. Army Airborne Division into the school of Little Rock Central High School. The nine black students were under interrogation while the school was being desegregation which gained national attention. -
Cooper v. Aaron
The Supreme Court is shutting down schools in Little Rock and they shut down the Front Royal School in Virginia. -
Boynton v. Virgina
On December 5, the Supreme court did a case on Boynton v. Virginia. Made a decision that they would do segregation on vehicles that travel between states, they said that is is unlawful and unconstitutional because would be a violation of the Interstate Commerce Act. -
Greensboro Sit in
At Greensboro four college African Americans sat-down at a table at Woolworth's, when they were trying to order their food the service at the Restaurant refused to serve them and asked them to leave. They stayed in their seats and that was the first movement challenge of racial inequality throughout the South. -
Civil Rights Act of 1960
President Dwight Eisenhower signed the Civil Rights Act. It was made because they wanted the blacks to be able to have the same rights that the whites did. They wanted to make the violence that the whites are causing upon the blacks for doing something that the whites do not like.
