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Brown v. Board of Education
Linda Brown was trying to go to the local school in Kansas. However the local school was only for white kids. So then the NAACP got involved and brought 5 cases to the Supreme Court to overturn the Separate but equal doctrine. The judges ruled 9-0 to overturn the doctrine. Most blacks still didn’t get to go to school. -
Murder of Emmett Till
Fourteen year old Emmett Till was at the local market in Money, Mississippi. He then was accused of whistling at a Carolyn Bryant, a white woman. Three days later Roy Bryant and his half brother J.W Milan and others kidnapped Emmett Till. These white men cut his ear off, eye was detached, bard wire was wrapped around his throat. He was then thrown in the Tallahatchie River being weighed down by a 75 pound metal cotton gin fan. -
Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks is arrested for refusing to move seats on the bus. She was then taken to court and is fined $10. Martin Luther King Jr. and the church send out flyers to boycott the bus system on December 5. The buses ran empty of African Americans for 381 days. Supreme Court ruled bus had to let blacks ride. -
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
A meeting of Black church pastors to coordinate events for black people. MLK was elected the first president. This group used a nonviolent strategy. This group also registered blacks to vote, opposed Vietnam war and better jobs for blacks. -
Little Rock 9
Nine black students wanted to go to a white school. The governor of Arkansas call out the National Guard to stop them. President Eisenhower calls in 1200 military men to escort these students from home to class. 1959 all schools fully integrated. -
Greensboro Sit In
Four college students go to Woodroth’s buy items. Then go sit at the lunch corner to eat. However they are refused service and are told to leave. They stayed and waited to be served. The students did this over a period days and did the same thing. The amount of students grew over the days to 1,000. Woodroth’s was losing 1.8 million so they started serving blacks. -
Freedom Riders
436 black students started hopping on buses in the North then drove to the Deep South to desegregate hotels, gas stations, and hotels. However, when they were going through there the kkk stopped them and beat them, fire bombed their bus, and kill them. Happened numerals times to different busses. -
March on Washington
In Washington D.C, 250,000 people including Martin Luther King Jr. had a peaceful and respect protest. During this protest Martin Luther King had his I have a dream speech. He was the last speech of that day. -
Civil Rights Act
Lyndon B Johnson signed the act. Then this enabled the federal government to prevent racial discrimination and segregation based on race, color, region, or national origin in private business or public facilities. -
Assassination of Malcolm X
Malcolm X was a Civil Rights leader who was part of the Nation of Islam. He wanted black people to believe in themselves and start their own businesses. A time later he was shot 21 times at the Audubon Ballroom in NYC. Thomas Hagar was then convicted of killing Malcom X. -
Selma to Montgomery
600 Black marchers including John Lewis wanted to walk fifty-four miles to Montgomery to register to vote. At the Edmond Bridge that’s on the outside of Selma Alabama, troopers brutally beat them. -
Voting Rights Act
Lyndon B Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act. This enabling the right to vote of African Americans any discrimination in voting. Now a federal matter not state. -
Assassination of Martin Luther King
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated at his hotel in Memphis, Tennessee. He was shot in the lower right side of his face. The suspect James Earl Ray, was sentenced to 99 years in prison