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Brown V. Board of Education
The Brown V. Board of Education case was an attempt to desegregate public schools. This attempt was successful in bring whites and blacks together to learn. The case was filed against the Topeka, Kansas school board by representative-plaintiff Oliver Brown. A parent of one of the children denied access to Topeka's white schools. The decision was made based on how racial segregation of children in public schools violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. -
Montgomery bus Boycott
The Montgomery Bus Boycott started as a African-American woman by the name of Rosa Parks, refused to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery bus. She was arrested and fined. This led to a 13-month mass protest that ended with the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that segregation on public buses is unconstitutional. -
The SCLC
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference consisted of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. as President, Dr. Ralph David Abernathy as Financial Secretary-Treasurer, and many more people. In their attempt to impact the civil Rights movement, I feel that they were very successful in initiating thier goals. The influenced many others to do the same as well -
The SNCC
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was formed from a student meeting organized by Ella Baker held at Shaw University in April 1960. They generated their own projects and strategies apart from the SCLC. These students would do sit-in non-violent protesting to get what they wanted. They believed that non- violent protesting was the way to go about things. These students had to have a high tolerance for the sit-ins because of the constant negativity inflicted on them. -
Hamilton Hunter & Hamilton Holmes
Hamilton Holmes and Charlayne Hunter became the first two African American students admitted to the University of Georgia. When they applied in the Winter Quarter of 1959, they were not accepted because of “limited space.” Holmes and Hunter filed a civil suit against Danner for the refusal of their applications. After their fight against the system, they were finally accepted into the University. -
Freedom Riders
13 African-American and white civil rights activists started the Freedom Rides, these were a series of bus trips through the American South to protest segregation in interstate bus terminals. They were recruited by the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). They attempted to integrate facilities at bus terminals along the way into the South and were very successful. -
Albany Movement
The Albany movement consisted of blacks and Whites, including Dr. Martin Luther King Jr..Their goal was to desegregate the entire community, and it resulted in the jailing of more than 1,000 African Americans in Albany. Dr. King left Albany admmitting in his failure to accomplish his goals. Although, some have identified the movement as a learning experience for Dr. King and other civil rights activists. -
March on Washington
The March to Washington was were more than 200,000 people gathered in Washington, D.C., for a political rally for jobs and freedom. The rally played a key roll in the Civil Rights movement mainly because of Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech that spirited a call for rights and equality as well as the amount of how many people came. This impacted so many people and beniftitted people to get goo jobs and to become equal no matter their race or color -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. It was proposed by President John F. Kennedy and was then signed into law by Kennedy’s successor, Lyndon B. Johnson. This act played a huge role on real the meaning of equal rights. Less and less people were being decriminated because of this act. This simple stroke of the pen was more powerful than ever. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
The Voting Rights Act was signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson, to overcome some legal barriers that came with the 15th amendment. African Americans could now exercising their right to vote as people. They faced barriers such as poll taxes, literacy tests, and other rediculous restrictions to deny them the right to vote. -
Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on Thursday, April 4, 1968, at the age of 39. He was a famous Civil Rigths Leader who people looked up to because of what he belived in. He fought for equal rights, no matter what you looked like or were you came from. Something that most poeple wanted, apart from the minority community. Dr. King never wanted violence but he wanted peace, just as Mahatma Gandhi wanted. Gandhi stood as a role model for Dr, King.
