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Jan 1, 1000
Key
Achievement - 👍
Protest - ✋
Court Case - 🕵️♂️
Violence by Protestors - 🦴
Violence by Opposition - 🧌
No Violence - 🙏 -
Keys VS Carolina Coach - 🕵️♂️
Sarah keys Evans refused to give up her seat on a state to state charter bus. In this court case the interstate commerce commission outlawed the segregation of black passengers in buses traveling across state lines. -
Emmett Till's Murder - 🧌
Emmett went to a store with his cousins and he may have whistled to the store worker. The workers husband kidnapped Emmett and brutally murdered him, dumping his body in the Tallahatchie river. -
Creation of the Montgomery Improvement Association - 👍
The association was formed in the days following the arrest of Rosa parks. The organization would play a leading role in fighting segregation in the city and produce some of the civil rights movements most well known figures. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott - ✋
The boycott was a protest against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system. The boycott is regarded as the first large scale US demonstration against segregation. -
Founding of Southern Christian Leadership Conference - ✋✋✋
The group was created to have a regional organization that could better coordinate civil rights protest activities across the south. The groups first president Martin Luther King Jr paved the way. -
Albany Campaign - 🙏
The Albany campaign was a desegregation and voters rights coalition. The movement was founded by local black leaders and ministers as well as members of the student nonviolent coordination committee. -
The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom - ✋
The largest gathering for civil rights of its time. An estimated 250,000 people attended the march on Washington for jobs and freedom. -
Mississippi Freedom Summer - 🦴
The Mississippi freedom summer was a volunteer campaign in the United States. It attempted to register as many African American voters as possible in Mississippi. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964 - 🙏
The act was signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson, it prohibited discrimination in public places and provided the integration of schools and other public facilities. It was the most sweeping civil rights legislation since reconstruction. -
Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr - 🧌
Martin Luther King Jr was shot dead while standing on a balcony outside his room in Tennessee. News of his death prompted major outbreaks of racial violence resulting in more than 40 deaths nationwide. -
National chicano moratorium - 🦴
The aim of the march was to bring attention to the disproportionate percentage of chicanos being killed daily in the war. The activist were located in Mexican American communities throughout the southwest. -
Swann VS Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools - 🕵️♂️
The act helped students regardless of race to receive equal education opportunities. The court ruled that students will be bused between districts to achieve integrated schools. -
Shirley Chisolm’s Presidential Campaign - 👍
Shirley Chisholm supported the equal rights movement and legalized abortions. She ran for president as a part of the democratic party, she received 152 first ballot votes for the presidential nomination. -
Hank Aaron's Home Run Record - 👍
In 1974 against the Dodgers Hank Aaron set the all time home run record with number 715. He passed Babe ruth with home run, his record would stand for many years. -
University of California Regents vs. Bakke - 🕵️♂️
A decision by the supreme court that ruled unconstitutional on a universities use of racial quotas. But held that affirmative action programs could be constitutional in some circumstances.