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Brown vs Board of Education
This was a case where the Supreme Court established a law that states to seperate public schools for the black and white students. Schools would intergrate while some students fought because they liked how eveything was and they didnt want to seperate. That led to more important events onwards. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
This all started bcuse the blacks wanted equal rights for sitting down in a seat and not giving it to another(caucasian). So therefore they made a movement called, "boycott' and there was a specific person who started all this and it was Rosa Parks. The result was she got arrested because she refused to give her seat to a white man and so other people started to follow her and started to boycott so they also got arrested and all of this lasted 381 days. -
*****State Flag of 1956******
This is when the people of the United States chose to change their flag and it ends up looking like the Confederate state flag and most Georgians were saying that that wasnt very proper for thm to do so.Early on they end up changing it during 2001 and so on. -
Formation of SCLC
This was basically a nonviolence protest to let the African Americans get out of jail. The leader of this was Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and ho was with him were all African Americans to get there fllow people out of jail and etc. -
Formation of SNCC
This was the first movement for the African American and it was about the Africn Americans long side, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., to do sit-ins and disobey the whites with a nonviolence project and strategies. -
****Sibley Commission*****
This was the deciding if the schools wanted to be forced to close because some people did and did not want to desegregate. The Sibley Commission then later did a foundation at the end to help avoid a massive showdown. -
Admission of Charlayne Hunter and Hamilton Holmes into the University of Georgia
This was about how these were the first two African American people to be in a college and at this time schools an stuff werent interfgrated yet so white people began to begin riots at their houses and at school. Hunter has a journalism career while Holmes had a medical career, although Holmes died, Hunter is still alive working for New Yorker magazine and others as well. -
Freedom Riders
These were civil rights activist who rode to places to do non violence sit ins in restraunts, boycotting, etc. and going around the south of georgia. The people involved in this were the many groups before, Dr. MLK Jr., Rosa Parks, etc. and they would do anything to get there rights even if they have to be arrested, killed, etc. -
Albany Movement
This movement was basically to desegragate a whole community. The goal failed but it was a lesson and they can try again and succeed because they know what they did wrong. All the groups and important African Americans were there to support. -
March to Washington
This is for African Americans to get their freedom, jobs, racial justice, and equality, and much much more. With the encouragement of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
This was when President John F. Kennedy ended segregation by signing a law and stating to end the discrimination of race, color, religion, sex, etc. and also the public places. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Was signed as a law by President Lyndon Johnson letting all African Americans to vote, titled as the 15th Amendment. This was important because it let African Americans to vote and this changes eveything because now they have some equal rights just like the whites. -
Assassanation of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
The assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was actiually planned by a white man named, James Earl Ray, and when he did kill Dr. MLK Jr. he confessed after knowing he'll be knowledged by the whites. Martin had four children and a spouse named Coretta Scott King. He was born on January 15, 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia. And he was also pushed to the influence by Mahatma Gandhi, Abraham Lincoln, and more.
