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Brown vs. Board of Education
Brown vs. Board of Education: Segregated public schools unconstitutional. -
Bus Boycott : Montegomery, Alabama
Montgomery Bus Boycott: Rosa Parks was ordered to give up her seat to a white rider. She refused to and was arrested. 90% of African Americans stopped riding buses. Boycott hurt the bus system and other white businesses. African Americans where threaten. -
The Little Rock Crisis
Little Rock Crisis: Nine African Amercian students tried to attend school. Angry whites harassed the African American students as they arrived for the first day of school. A guard prevented the African American students from entering the school for three weeks. African American students where protected by the U.S Soliders with fixed bayonets. The nine students attend Central High School. Only one out of the nine graduated. -
Greensboro, North Carolina
Greensboro, North Carolina Sit-In: Four college students began a sit-in of thier own after ordering coffee at a lunch counter. They where not served because of their race. Protesters won important white support. 2,000 protestors were arrested. Sit-ins were successful at getting business owners to change their policies. Marked a shift in the Civil Rights Movement. -
Freedom Riders
Freedom Riders: At each stop the African American riders would go into the whites-only waiting rooms and try to use facilities such as restrooms and luch counters. Mobs of the white race firebombed the bus and beat the Freedom Riders. Some suffered permanent brain damage and other wounds that neede stitches. They where CORE- sponsored Freedom Riders disbanned. -
Medger Evers
Head of the NAACP in Mississippi. Shot in his front yard. One of the movements most effective leaders. -
March on Washington
African American leaders decided to include demands for its passage as one of the march goals. MLK delivered a speech "I Have a Dream". SCLC/SNCC organized a demonstration at the nations capital. -
Birmingham, Alabama
Known for its strict enforcement of segregation. Volunteers taught local African Americans the techniques of nonviolence and how to read/write. -
Civil Rrights Act
Ended segregation in publis accommodations. Bbanned discrimination in employment. -
Selma Compaign
King began his campaign to gain voting rights for African Americans by marching to Selma. By the end of January more than 2,000 marchers were arrested -
Voting Right of 1965
Ensure the voting right to all citizens, including registering to vote. -
Black Panther Party
Panthers rejected nonviolence and called for violent revolution as a means of African American liberation Panthers carried guns and monitored African American neighboorhoods to guard against police bruality. -
Assassination of MLK Jr.
King led a march to city hall on March 28 and remained in Memphis to speak at a rally on April 3. James Earl Ray, shot Dr. King and killed him. Within three weeks 46 people were dead, some 2,600 were injured. -
Civil Rights Act of 1968
Landmark piece of legislation in the United States that provided for equal housing opportunities regardless of race. The Civil Rights Act of 1968 act provides for federal solutions while the 1866 act provides for private solutions.
