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Harry Truman/Executive Order
Harry Truman signed the Executive Order that would end segregation and discrimination from ever occurring in the U.S. Army or other armed forces again. -
Supreme Court Case: Brown vs. Board of Education
This case was being fought for segregation in public schools, for both black and white kids, to be thought of as unconstitutional. This case also overran the ideas of the Plessy vs. Ferguson, which said that segregation in public places was alright. A man named Oliver Brown, who was the parent of Linda Brown, experienced his daughter having to walk a whole six blocks to reach her school bus stop to reach her black school, while a white school was much closer to her house. -
Rosa Parks/Montgomery Bus Boycott
An African American woman named, Rosa Parks, had gotten on an Alabama bus, and decided to sit in one of the front row seat, where the white people always got to sit first. A white man got onto the bus and demanded that she give up her seat, because she was not privileged enough to sit there. Parks refused to give up her seat and was arrested and put into jail. Since she was well respected, this angered all African Americans even more and this sparked the beginning of the bus boycott. -
President Eisenhower/Students in Little Rock, Arkansas
On the morning of September 4, 1957, nine African American students walked to an all white school called Central High School. Many white men and women had gathered around the school shouting rude insults, pushing, shoving, and trying their hardest to stop the children from going into the white school. President Eisenhower did not accept segregation at all and sent troops to escort the children everyday on their walk to school, so they would be 'safe' for the time being. -
Albany Movement
This movement began when two members of the SNCC, Charles Sharrod and Cordell Reagon, heard that bus segregation was being put to a stop. They knew that they had a good opportunity to see if the new policies had actually took hold, or if no one would listen to them. Reagon and Sharrod sent out nine students from the Albany State College, to sit in the front seats of a bus terminal. As it turned out, none of them got arrested or beat/killed, but this inspired many people to follower their lead. -
Birmingham Campaign 1963
At this time in Birmingham, Alabama, there were bombings, murders, so many prisoners in jail just because of their ethnicity, and a horrific number of burnings. All of these events finally sparked the Birmingham Campaign to fall into place and make Birmingham the center for the civil rights movement. Martin Luther King Jr. called together, probably more than a whole community of people to stage sit-ins at segregated restaraunts, and many people storming City Hall, for the right to vote. -
March on Washington
Martin Luther King Jr. had gathered together over 250,000 people, black and white, poor and rich, and gave the 'I have a dream speech,' that brought the people together even more, to demand the right to vote and not have to take a test to gain the right to vote. They all wanted to end racial segregation and stop discrimination everywhere throughout the South. -
Malcom X Assination
Malcom X was an American Muslim minister, who spoke about equal and fair human rights. Many blacks saw him as a very strong leader and person to come to it they needed help or someone to talk to them about what they could do to fix their problems/how to fight them peacefully. -
March From Selma to Montgomery
The march from Selma to Montgomery, was one of the hundreds of protests to push forward the civil rights movement and make the people see that they were not going to give up easily. This march was made because the African Americans wanted to have the same right to vote as any other white man did. The whole march was 54 miles long and when they finally came to Montgomery, they were greeted with forceful attacks and killings even. In the end, everyone definitely saw that they needed voting rights. -
Bloody Sunday/ Selma to Montgomery March
This was the name for the day of the Selma to Montgomery March, because of how many people were killed, beat, or scratched up by the vicious police dogs. A man named Jimmie Lee Jackson was shot and killed by a white state trooper, on the date of February 17, 1965. He was a very strong and looked-up to person during the civil rights movement, and many people just could not take that he was killed. This was the reason for the Selma to Montgomery March. -
Voting Rights Act Finally Passed
About five months after the march from Selma to Montgomery, President Lyndon B. Johnson, signed the Voting Rights Act, the was pointing towards prohibiting the laws and steps that the African Americans had to go through just to vote. This is said to be the bravest and hospitable event throughout the civil rights movement.