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Brown us board of education
The Supreme Court ruled that separating children in public schools on the basis of race was unconstitutional. State sanctioned segregation of public schools was a violation of the 14th amendment and was therefore unconstitutional. -
Emmet Till
Emmet till was visiting relatives on Monday, Mississippi , when he was accused of harassing a local white women. Several days later, relatives of the women abducted Till, brutally beating and killing him before disposing of his body in a nearby river -
Rosa Parks and bus boycott
Sparked by the arrest of Rosa Parks on December 1, 1955 the Montgomery bus boycott was a 13-month mass protect that ended with the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that segregation on public buses is unconstitutional. -
Southern Christian Leadership conference
The SCLC focused it’s efforts on citizenship schools and efforts to desegregate individual cities such as Albany, Georgia, Birmingham, Alabama, and St. Augustine, Florida -
Little Rock 9
Nine African American students arrived at central highschool in Little Rock, Arkansas. They made their way through a crowd shouting obscenities and even throwing objects. Once students reached the front door the national guard prevented them from entering the school and were forced to go home. -
Greensboro sit in
The Greensboro sit-in was a civil rights protest that started in 1960, when young African American students staged a sit-in at segregated woolworths lunch counter after being denied service. -
Student nonviolent coordinating committee
They coordinated youth-led nonviolent, direct - action campaigns against segregation and other forms of racism.they had only modest success. -
Freedom Riders
Freedom Riders were groups of white and African American civil rights activists who participated in freedom rides, bus trips through the American south in 1961 to protest segregation bus terminals. -
March on Washington
More than a quarter million people participated in the historical March on Washington for jobs and Freedom, they gathered near the Lincoln Memorial. More than 3,000 members of the press covered this historical march, where Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, jr. -
Civil Right Act of 1964
The civil rights act of 1964 prohibits discrimination of the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or National origin. Provision of this civil rights act forbade discrimination on the basis of sex, as well as, race in hiring, promoting, and firing. -
March on Selma
The March in Selma was protesting racial justice, they contributed to passage that year of the voting rights act, a landmark federal achievement of the civil rights movement. Alabama highway patrol troopers attack civil rights demonstrators outside Selma, Alabama on Bloody Sunday. -
Voting Rights Act 1965
Provision of this civil rights act forbade discrimination on the basis of sex, as well as, race in hiring, promoting, and firing. The act prohibited discrimination in public accommodations and federally funded programs. It also strengthened the enforcement of voting rights and the desegregation of schools