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Plessy v Ferguson
163 U.S. 537 (1896), was a landmark United States Supreme Court decision upholding the constitutionality of state laws requiring racial segregation in public facilities under the doctrine of "separate but equal". -
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The start of civil right movement
The start of new ideas and the fight for civil rights for African Americans the events that shaped this movement of US history -
Medger Evers
Medgar Evers Born July 2, 1925, in Decatur, Mississippi. After growing up in a Mississippi farming family, Evers enlisted in the United States Army in 1943. He fought in both France and Germany during World War II before receiving an honorable discharge in 1946. During his senior year, Evers married a fellow student, Myrlie Beasley; they later had three children: Darrell, Reena, and James. was an African-American civil rights activist whose murder drew national attention. -
James Meredith
James Meredith was born in Kosciusko, Mississippi, on June 25, 1933 he was raised on a farm with nine brothers and sisters, largely insulated from the racism of the time.His first experience with institutionalized racism occurred while he was riding a train from Chicago with his brother. When the train arrived in Memphis, Tennessee, Meredith was ordered to give up his seat and move to the crowded black section of the train, where he had to stand for the rest of his trip home. -
C.O.R.E
The congress of racial equality was founded by James Farmer ,Bayard Rustin ,Bernice Fisher , George Houser it was formed for African-American civil rights organization in the United States that played a pivotal role for African Americans in the Civil Rights Movement., -
Jackie Robinson
American professional baseball second baseman who became the first African American to play in Major League Baseball in the modern era. Robinson broke the baseball color line when the Brooklyn Dodgers started him at first base on April 15, 1947. This started new age of sports when African Americans men could be part of it -
Sweatt v. Painter
Sweatt v. Painter, 339 U.S. 629, was a U.S. Supreme Court case that successfully challenged the "separate but equal" doctrine of racial segregation established Petitioner was denied admission to the state supported University of Texas Law School, solely because he is a Negro and state law forbids the admission of Negroes to that Law School. He was offered, but he refused, enrollment in a separate law school newly established by the State for Negroes under minding the 14th admen -
Brown v. Board of Education
was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. The decision overturned the Plessy v. Ferguson decision of 1896, which allowed state-sponsored segregation, insofar as it applied to public education. -
The Montgomery bus boycott
The Montgomery bus boycott was a big part in the civil rights movement was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery. It lasted from December 5 1955 to December 20 1956. it started when Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to surrender her seat to a white person this made the supreme court declare Alabama and Montgomery laws requiring segregated buses to be unconstitutional. -
The Southern Manifesto
The southern manifesto was a document written in February and March 1956, in the United States Congress, in opposition to racial integration of public places. The manifesto was signed by 101 politicians, 99 Southern Democrats and two Republicans from Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia. The Congressmen drafted the document to counter the landmark Supreme Court 1954 ruling Brown v. Board of Education. -
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
The Southern Christian Leadership conference was created on January 10,11 1957 when sixty black ministers and civil rights leaders met in Atlanta, Georgia in an effort to replicate the successful strategy and tactics of the recently concluded Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott. Martin Luther King Jr was chosen first to be the president of this group. dedicated to abolishing legalized segregation and ending the disfranchisement of black southerners in a non-violent manner. -
Little Rock Central High School
In a key event of the american civil rights movement, nine black students enrolled at a all white central high school in Little Rock, Arkansas,September 1957, testing a landmark 1954 U.S. Supreme Court declared segregation in public schools unconstitutional. The court had mandated that all public schools in the country be integrated with all deliberate speed On September 4, 1957 Governor Orval Faubus of Arkansas called in the state National Guard to bar the black students’ entry into the school. -
Student Nonviolent coordinating Committee
The Student Nonviolent coordinating committee formed to give younger blacks more of a voice in the civil rights movement became one of the movement’s more radical branches.the wake of the early sit ins at lunch counters closed to blacks which started in February 1960 in Greensboro, North Carolina, Ella Baker, then director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference , helped set up the first meeting of what became SNCC. -
Greensboro sit-in
The Greensboro sit in segregation was still strong in the southern United States in 1960s. Early that year, a non-violent protest by young African American students at a segregated Woolworth’s lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina sparked a sit in movement that soon spread to college towns throughout the region.many of the protesters were arrested for trespassing, disorderly conduct or disturbing the peace, -
Freedom Riders
The Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States in 1961 a group of 13 African American and white civil rights activists launched the Freedom Rides a series of bus trips through the American South to protest segregation in interstate bus terminals. Freedom Riders, who were recruited by the Congress of Racial Equality a U.S. civil rights group departed from Washington, D.C., and attempted to integrate facilities at bus terminals -
Letter from Birmingham jail
The letter was written by Martin Luther King Jr The letter defends the strategy of nonviolent resistance to racism.It says that people have a moral responsibility to break unjust laws and to take direct action rather than waiting potentially forever for justice to come through the courts. Responding to being referred to as an outsider, King writes, Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere
