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Brown vs board of education
In may of 1954 Oliver brown brought the board of education to court. The NAACP combine a total of 5 cases and take them to the Supreme Court. The vote was 9-0 to over turn the separate but equal law. However this I happened but many of these black students will never go to school with whites. -
Murder of Emmet Till
This had taken place in money Mississippi. Emmet till was murdered at the age of 14 because of the factor that he whistled at a white woman. 3 days after he whistled at the white woman Roy Bryant and others kidnapped Emmet till they detached one of his eyes cut a ear off and wrapped barbed wire around his neck attached to a 75 pound cotton gin fan and then through it into the water. -
Rosa Parks buss boycott
In December 12 1955 Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King in Montgomery Alabama. Rosa parks was arrested for failing to move seats on the bus. She was fined 10 dollars. MLKJr and church send out flyers to boycott the bus system and December 5. The buses ran empty for 381 days. The Supreme Court ruled buses had to let blacks ride. -
Greensboro Sit ins
4 college students in Greensboro north Carolina they had went to Woolworths to buy some items them they went to go sit at the lunch counter. The workers refused to serve the black students and told them to leave but they stayed. Day after day they had came back and did the same thing and the amount of students grew to over 1000. -
Little Rock 9
The NAACP and 9 black students in Little Rock Arkansas. Wanted to go to school that the whites went to. The governor of Arkansas called out the national guard to stop them. The president Eisenhower called in 1,200 military men to protect the black kids. -
Freedom riders
436 individuals in 60 separate freedom riders started in Washington D.C and went to the Deep South to desegregate bus station dinners and hotels. A diverse group from 39 states mostly being college students arrived in Anniston Alabama. Then there tires were slashed and then fire bombed by the KKK. -
March on Washington
This took place in Washington D.C 250,000 people marched . It was a peaceful and respectful protest for jobs and freedom. MLK gave his “I have a dream speech”. MLK was the last to speech that day. -
Civil rights act of 1964
Lyndon B Johnson and Martin Luther King in Washington. Enabled the federal government to prevent racial discrimination and segregation based on race and color, religion or national origin in private businesses or public facilities. -
Malcom X
Malcom little age 39 in Audubon Ballroom New York. Civil Rights leader who was a part of the Nation of Islam. He wanted black people to believe in themselves and start their own businesses. He was shot 21 times. Thomas Hagar was convicted of killing Malcom X. -
Selma
600 marches and John Lewis in Selma Alabama. Black marchers wanted to walk 54 miles to Montgomery to register to vote. At the Edmond bridge troopers brutally beat them. -
Voting rights act of 1965
LBJ in Washington D.C enabling the right to vote for African Americans. Any discrimination in voting was not allowed. Now a federal matter not state. -
MLK
Martin Luther King Jr on April 4 1968 in Lorraine motel in Memphis Tennessee. Striking sanitation worker protest in Memphis. Went back to the motel. Shot in the lower right side of his face. Shot with a Remington Rifle. James Earl Ray was the one who shot him and was sentenced to a 99 year sentence in prison. The death of Martin Luther King Jr had marked the end of the end of the civil rights act movement.