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The Supreme Court ruled that the white schools were getting better supplies and told the students to use them. The black people were getting "left" overs and they were supplied with the same tools as the white schools were. separate but equal. -
Emmett Till was murdered while going to a gas station to get a snack. The white owner said that he was catcalling the owner's wife, which led her family to find him and kill him for no reason. While the woman was on her death bed she said that it was all a lie. -
This was a show by African Americans by them refused to ride city buses in Alabama. This stopped the segregation on buses. -
Black students were held back from entering the segregated school. This resulted in the 101st airborne to protect the black students -
This act took away the ability to interfere with colored people's right to register to vote. Now everyone can vote and have their own say in things. -
Black students who lived in Greensboro decided to protest their rights. One day they went to Woolworths and sat at the bar. They knew that they would be mistreated so they prepared themselves for what was going to happen. They had many things poured and thrown at them. -
Black and White activists rode buses together threw the South to challenge local laws. Then it got very violent when racists threw homemade firebombs. -
The largest gathering of civil rights if it time. They were protesting for jobs and rights for the black people. This is where MLK made his "I Have a Dream" speech. -
He was a black muslim minister and human rights activist who was a popular figure during the civil rights movement. He was shot multiple times and died from his wounds in New York. He was seen as the military version of MLK -
MLK was the most well-known human rights activist. He was a preacher who was known for his " I Have a Dream" speech. At 6:05 pm he was shot dead while standing on a balcony outside of his second-floor room at Lorraine Motel, TN. -
It established that the federal courts had the authority to intervene regarding the desegregation of schools in the states.They were trying to get black and white students to
ride on the buses together. -
This is when she first said that she was going to be running for president and she was the first black woman to run in the history of the United States of America. She started her "bloodless revolution". -
He was known for hitting more home runs than anyone else in baseball history black or white. He played for Milwaukee brewer and the Atlanta braves. -
She was the first woman to make a keynote address. She also received the presidential medal of freedom she was also the first African American to be buried in the texas state cemetery. -
A law that was passed that you couldn't be denied by the color of your skin for the college.