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Thirteenth Amendment
This amendment was created to abolish slavery in the U.S. The signing of this document was in Washington D.C., VA. Also, the method for creating the thirteenth amendment was a nonviolent change in the law. -
Plessy v. Ferguson
Plessy v. Ferguson took place in Louisina Supreme Court. One of the main people who were in this event was Thursgood Marshall,who was an associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. The ruling of the court was that 'seperate but equal was legal". But in time people would come to hate this ruling and want descrimination abolished. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
The Montgomery Bus Boycott started when a woman named Rosa Parks wouldn't give up her seat for a white man even though it was the law. After Rosa Parks was arrested for this nonviolent defience, Martin Luther King Jr. asked for ever African-American to not use nonviolent public transportation. This lasted for 13-months, by the end of the 13-months Africa-Americans were aloud to sit anywhere they wanted to on the bus. -
Little Rock Nine
The Little Rock Nine was a group of African-American students who started attending an all white school (Central High School) in Little Rock, Arkansas. The method used in this event was inforced intergration considering that Presdent Esenhower helped to make sure that the students were infact going to school and not being descriminated during the school day. -
Greensboro Sit-in
Four collage students (Ezell Bair Jr., David Richmond, Franklin McCain, and Joseph McNeil) walked into a resturant (Woolworth's) one day, and sat at a white only counter. They stayed there for that whole day because no one would serve them. Then on February 5 more than 300 other students came with them and also sat at the lunch counter. This method that they use was nonviolent disobedience, this disobedience started dinning facilities to become integrated. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was signed in Washington D.C, VA, by President Johnson. This act was created to outlaw segregation and banned descrimination. This act was also created to give people the equal rights that they were born with. -
Kings Assassination
Martin Luther King Jr.'s death happened in Memphis Tenn, while he was there helping with a march for African-American stationary workers who had gone on strike. After the announcement of Martin's death roits and violence broke out across the U.S. for people to truly put an end to descrimanation. The FBI later arrested an escaped convict, James Earl Ray, but many people, including some of Martin Luther King Jr.'s own family, believe he was innocent. -
Wilmington Roits
The Wilmingtion Riots in 1971, held one mayjor event in NC, when nine black students and activists and one white antipoverty worker, set fire to Mike's Grocery. Then when police officers and firefighters arrived they opened fire at the men. This then sentinced the people to a total of 272 years in prison, because whitnesses stated that they say the Wilmington 10 shoot. After 23 years of being in jail Govener Perdue, pardoned the case due to the witnesses stating that they had been payed off.
