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Emmett Till
Emmett Louis Till was a 14-year-old African American boy who was abducted, tortured, and lynched in Mississippi in 1955, after being accused of offending a white woman, Carolyn Bryant, in her family's grocery store -
Brown vs Board of education
December 9, 1952-May 17,1954
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, was a landmark decision by the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled that U.S. state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional, -
Rosa Parks Boycott Bus
the first large scale U.S. demonstration against segregation. Four days before the boycott began, Rosa Parks, an African American woman, was arrested and fined for refusing to yield her bus seat to a white man. -
The Little Rock Nine
The Little Rock Nine were a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. Their enrollment was followed by the Little Rock Crisis, in which the students were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school by Orval Faubus, the Governor of Arkansas. -
Greensboro Sit ins
Series of non violent event in protest in store and many other thing.African americans sat in diners and many other places and sat where they were not allowed until they were served. -
Freedoms rides
African American and white civil right activist who participated in a drive across the south to protest for african americans. -
MLK letter from Birmingham Jail
Open letter from MLK he wrote while in jail the letter that Martin Luther King, Jr addressed to his fellow clergymen while he was in jail in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1963, after a nonviolent protest against racial segregation. -
Birmingham Church Bombing
The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing was a white supremacist terrorist bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama -
24th Amendment
Right made anyone allowed to vote and not have to pay to vote because poor blacks and whites could not vote because they had little money . -
Civil rights act of 1964
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is a landmark civil rights and labor law in the United States that outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, and national origin -
Voting right acts of 1965
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is a landmark piece of federal legislation in the United States that prohibits racial discrimination in voting -
Loving vs Virginia
Loving vs Virginia, was a landmark civil rights decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that laws banning interracial marriage -
March on Washington
The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, also known as simply the March on Washington or The Great March on Washington. -
Bloody Sunday
Bloody Sunday, was a massacre on 30 January 1972 when British soldiers shot 26 unarmed civilians during a protest march in the Bogside area of Derry, Northern Ireland