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Integration of the Armed Forces
An establishment president Harry S. Truman signed. An executive order establishing the president's committee on Equality of Treatment and Opportunity in the Armed services. Committing the Government to integrate the segregated military. -
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas
Where the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously that racial segregation in public schools violated the Fourteenth Amendment to the constitution. Which it prohibits the states from denying equal protection of the laws to any person within jurisdictions. -
Emmett Till murder
A 14-year-old African American was lynched in Mississippi in 1955. After being accused of offending a white woman in her family's grocery store. In conclusion, he was beaten to death! -
Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Rosa parks invigorated the struggle for racial equality when she refused to give up her seat to a white man. So they did a boycott with 17,000 black citizens. -
Central High School and the Little Rock Nine
At this school, a group of nine black students enrolled at a formally all-white school in Arkansas called central High School, in September 1957. They made it through a shouting crowd obscenities and even throwing objects. Once they reached the front the national guard prevented them from entering. -
Greensboro Sit-ins
A civil rights protest that started in 1960. When young African American students staged a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro NC. They refused to leave after being denied service. -
Freedom Rides
Student activists from the congress of racial equality launched freedom rides to challenge segregation on interstate busses and bus terminals. It illuminated the courage of black and white youth and highlighted the leadership of Diane Nash. -
James Meredith and the integration of the University of Mississippi
Riots! by locals and students and segregationist gathered. To protest the enrollment of James Meredith, a black air force veteran attempting to integrate the all-white school. -
"March on Washington, DC “I Have a Dream Speech”
It was a call of equality and freedom. It became one of the defining moments of the civil rights movement and one f the most iconic speeches in American history. -
16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham
This racially motivated attack killed four young girls and shocked the nation. It served as a site of mass meetings and rallying points for African Americans protesting widespread institutionalized racism. -
John F. Kennedy assassination and Lyndon Johnson becomes President
John F Kennedy got shot in the head and his vice president Lyndon became the president. When he became president he was on a major tax cut, the clean air act, and the civil rights act. -
Twenty Fourth Amendment
It's the right of the U.S. to vote in any primary or other election for president or vice president. Citizens used to have to pay a fee to vote but this fee was canceled by the poll tax amendment the 24th amendment to be exact. -
Civil Rights Act
Prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, and national origin. The Act prohibited discrimination in public accommodations and federally funded programs. Also strengthened the enforcement of voting rights. -
Three Civil Rights workers are murdered in Mississippi
This is the murder of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner, also known as the freedom summer murders. This refers to three activists who were abducted and murdered in Philadelphia, Mississippi -
Voting Rights Act
It outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the civil war. It was caused because still violence was persisted in states where blacks were continually blocked from voting.