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Brown vs. Board of Education
This case was about the segregation of public schools of separating colored kids and putting them in different schools.The court ruled unanimous for Brown saying this act was unconstitutional. -
Emmett Till Murder
The Emmett Till murder was 14 year old boy that was killed for talking fresh to a white women.He was picked by 2 white men named Rory Bryant and JW Bryant went to the house he was staying in and kidnapped him.They shot him beat him hung him and threw his body in the river.The court ruled the men not guilty even though did it. -
Rosa Parks & the Montgomery Bus Boycott
This event took place on a city bus when a lady named Rosa Parks wouldn't give up her seat to a white man and she was arrested.Then the African Americans started a bus boycott they wouldn't use the city buses and would walk everywhere.This ran down the city buses and the buses weren't making hardly any money. -
The Little Rock Nine and Integration
This was another event about segregation in public schools this time it was against nine African American student that were trying to get enrolled to Little Rock Central high school.They were walking through a crowd of people and were getting shouted at and getting stuff thrown at them they were not allowed in the school.The Supreme Court supported them the ruled that segregated schools were illegal. -
Greensboro Woolworth's Sit-ins
This event was at a lunch counter in Woolworth Greensboro North Carolina where 4 African American student sat down at a white only lunch counter.They refused to give up there seats and weren't going to leave until they were served. -
Freedom Rides
This event was a protest of African Americans that would ride in interstate buses into the segregated southern United States.People would blow out the tires and cocktail bombs were thrown in the buses. -
MLK’s Letter From Birmingham Jail
This letter was from Martin Luther King Jr. from the Birmingham City Jail.The letter was saying that people have a moral responsibility to break unjust laws and take direct action instead of waiting. -
March on Washington
This event was when a quarter million people rallied in Washington D.C. to demand an end to segregation, fair wages, economic justice, voting rights, and overdue civil rights protections. -
Birmingham Baptist Church Bombing
This event was in a church and there was 4 African American girls were killed by a dynamite bomb that was planted under the church The Ku Klux Klan was responsible for the bombing.They bombed the church because they were mad that they started integrating schools. -
24th Amendment
This event outlawed poll tax as a voting requirement in federal elections by a vote of 295 to 86 this benefited African Americans by giving them their right to vote. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
This event prohibited discrimination on the basis of race,color of skin,religion,sex or national origin.This benefited African Americans because it gave them equal access to restaurants,transportation and other public facilities. -
“Bloody Sunday”/Selma to Montgomery March
This event was a march along the 54 mile highway from Selma,Alabama to the State Capital of Montgomery.Police troopers attacked the marchers with billy clubs and tear gas hurting many marchers. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
This event outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War.Quarter million new Black voters had been registered,one third by federal examiners. -
Loving v. Virginia
This event is a Landmark Civil Rights decision of The U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that laws banning interracial marriage violate the Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses of 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.