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Brown Vs board of Education
The Brown family fought the board of education because because their 14th amendment was being violated -
Emmett Till Murder
Emmett Till was a 14 year old boy who was murdered he was beat and mutilated then shot in the head and then his body was sank in a river. The killers were acquitted which is what brought so much attention to the case. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
African Americans refused to ride the buses in Montgomery, Alabama to stand up against segregated seating on the buses . This was one of the first few large scale protests against segregation in the US. -
Little Rock Central High School Integration
The Governor went against the presidents instructions and allowed African American students to go to Central High School which was a very good academic school at the time and had around 2000 student that were all white. Nine African American students attended the school and at the end of the year only one of they students didn't finish the year -
Atlanta sit ins
In 1960 six colleges had sit in to protest against the city legally segregating students lunch areas. They became to try to negotiate with them but it didn't work well and the students convinced Martin Luther King Jr to help them attract publicity from the public.After around a year the lunch areas were desegregated -
Freedom Riders
Freedom Riders was a interracial group that was traveling to to protest the supreme courts ruling in Boynton vs Virginia. The left Washington D.C. and were heading towards the deep south. On there way they they went through 3 states without any real problems. Once they reached Alabama mobs of white people rushed the buses and beat the people on it. some people were beat so bad they couldnt continue After this they traveled with protection to Mississippi where they were arrested and put in jail. -
NAACP Convention in Atlanta
The NAACP held a convention in Atlanta because at the time it was one of the few cities that was moving the direction of not segregating people. At this time it had gotten rid of separate lunch places and at a lot of the places to stay they didn't take just whites -
March on Washington
250,000 Americans gathered in the nations capitol to march for black rights. So many civil rights organizations went to the event that John F Kennedy ended up supporting the event. That a lone was a huge step in the right direction but then later on in the event Martin Luther King Jr gave the famous "I have a dream" speech and then around a year later his dream had come true. -
Civil rights act
Lyndon Johnson signed the civil rights act into law on July 2nd, 1964 it was only a few hours after the House had approved it. This made any type of discrimination illegal. -
Martin Luther Kings assassination
Only four years after his dream had come true MLK was assassinated at a motel while standing on his second floor balcony in Tennessee. He was in Tennessee to lead a march.
