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Brown V. Board of Education
NAACD contained 5 cases from kanas, south California, Virginia, Delaware, and Washington DC, to the Supreme Court. The court decides 9-0 that these black students will never go to school with white students. -
Murder of Emmit Till
Emmit Till was accused of whistling and groping a woman, about 3 days later Roy Bryant and a few others kidnapped him. They detached his eye, his ear, then wrapped barb wire around his neck and weighed him down with a 75 pound gin cotton fan, then proceeded to throw him in the water. He was later on found and his mother requested to have him sent back to Chicago and put him in the public eye view to show people what they did to her son. -
Rosa Parks and the bus boycott
Rosa was arrested for refusing to move to the back of the bus, the cops was called and she was taken to the police station where she was charged $10. MLK and the church sent out flyers telling all the blacks to not ride the bus and this proceeded for 381 days. They boycotted the bus system which led to many bus drivers losing their jobs and then the Supreme Court changed it to blacks and whites can sit anywhere they want -
Southern Christian Leadership conference
A meeting of Black Church pastors to coordinate events for black people. MLK was elected the 1st pediment. This group used a nonviolent strategy. This group also registered blacks to vote, opposed Vietnam war, and provide better jobs for blacks. -
Little Rock 9
9 students wanted to go to the white school in Arkansas.
The Governor of Arkansas called out the National Guard to stop them, President Eisenhower then sent 1,200 military men to escort these students from home to class and because of that all schools were fully integrated in 1959. -
Greensboro Sit ins
they went to Wodworth's buy items. Then went to sit at the lunch counter. They were refused service and were told to leave but they ended up staying. Day after day they kept coming back and did the same thing over and over. The number of students grew up to 1,000 of them. -
Freedom Riders
A diverse group of volunteers from 39 different states, most of them were college students. They arrived to Anniston, Alabama blocked by the KKK. Tires were slashed, fire bombed, buses burned, and beatings were happening town after town -
March On Washington D.C.
250,000 people marched in protest for jobs and freedom. Martin Luther King gave his “I have a dream” speech. MLK was the last speaker of the day -
Civil Rights Act
Enabled the federal government to prevent racial discrimination and segregation based on race, color, religion or national orgin private businesses or public facilities -
Assassination of Malcom X
Civil Rights leader who was apart of the Nation of Islam. He wanted black people to believe in themselves and start their own businesses. He was shit 21 times. Thomas Hagen was convicted of the killing -
Selma To Montgomery March
The Selma Marches were a series of three marches that took place in 1965 from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. These marches were organized to protest the blocking of Black Americans' right to vote by the systematic racist structure of the Jim Crow South. -
Voting Rights Act
Enabling the right to vote of African Americans any discrimination in voting. Now a Federal matter not state -
Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr
Striking sanitation workers protest in Memphis went back to the motel. Shot lower right side of his face, with Remington Rifle. James EarlyRay sentenced to 99 years. His death marks the end of the civil rights movement