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Jim Crow derogatory laws
Alabama literacy test
Separate schools/rail cars/water fountains/back of the bus -
Brown V Board
It’s a Supreme Court case that ends segregation
The vote was unanimous
Linda Brown who had a two commute to go to black school, where a white school was blocks away
It is a great decision, however there was a lot of violence after the ruling -
Emmet Till
14 isyear old boy rom Chicago, visiting Mississippi
Accused of whistling at a white woman
Roy Bryan -
Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks of Montgomery, Alabama
Rosa refused to move, she was arrested
Dec 5, a boycott of buses will last 381 days
Nonviolent protests to start more civil right movements
Bus boycott -
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Started after the bus boycott to organize protest
MLK was elected president
Organized protest around the south to coordinate events such as Greensboro sit ins, March on Washington, and Selma
After MLK’s assasination it declined
Still exists today -
Little Rock 9
Testing brown v board of education decision
9 students were vetted to underground test
Airborn 101 escorted students to class
Following year all public schools closed(1958)
Aug 29 1959 schools reopened -
Greensboro 4
4 college students sat down at a lunch counter at woolworths to be served. They were refused service. Countinued to sit in and others joined, the protest spread to other towns. Forced change -
Freedom riders
2 week bus trip to the Deep South to deliberately violate Jim Crow laws. It was organized by CORE. The buses were burned and riders beaten by the kkk. Milk becomes a strong leader talking with jfk -
March on Washington
March on Washington for jobs and freedom was to advocate for the civil and economic rights of African Americans. 250,000 people were in attendance of the Lincoln memorial. Mlk was the last to speak, amdgave his I have a dream speech. 70-80% of marchers were black. It helped to pass the civil rights act of 1964 -
Martin Luther Assasinated
Youth group of students remained fiercely independent of MLK and SCLC, generating their own projects and strategies. The two organizations worked side by side throughout the early years of the civil rights movement. This group was the second half of the freedom riders and were part of a march to Selma.