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Brown v. Board of Education
the case that allowed separate but equal was called Plessy v. Ferguson. The case took place in Topeka Kansas and the court unanimously overruled it. -
Emmett Louis Till
A young African American boy was lynched for flirting with a white girl in Money Mississippi -
Rosa Parks Aressted for not giving up bus seat
Rosa parks was riding the bus and a white individual asked for her seat but she denied them which lead to her arrest. -
Civil Right's Act of 1957
President Eisenhower passed the law and it primarily a voting rights bill for African Americans. -
Little Rock, Arkansas
Nine African American students tried to go to an integrated school but white extremist mobs broke out causing federal enforcement to be involved. The police were sent but then federal troops were sent. -
Sit-ins
Four black young men refuse to leave a white only restaurant and then many other across the country take by example. It happened in Greensboro North Carolina. -
Attack of Freedom Riders
Both whites and African Americans rode buses that refused to integrate. This movement was helped by the CORE organization. -
James Meredith enrolls at Ole Miss
Governor stopped him but the President sent federal troops to escort him which lead to a riot of whites. -
Medgar Evers Assassinated
civil rights activist and field secretary for the NAACP in Mississippi, was shot in the back while walking up to his house. His two small children witnessed his murder. -
March on Washington
It was a way to get public support so congress would pass the civil rights bill. Dr. Martin Luther King jr. gave his " I have a dream' speech. -
Louis Allen
An African American man witnessed a murder and then was killed by two white men but no one was convicted in Liberty Mississippi. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
It was passed by the House of Representatives and it got rid of segregation and gave power to the government to prevent it . -
Jimmie Lee Jackson
In Marion, Alabama Jimmie Lee Jackson was murdered by a state trooper for being in a Civil Rights March. -
March to Selma
It was to help the voting rights of blacks it was successful even with the white extremist opposition. In the end The President protect their rights -
Jonathan Daniels
In Hayneville, Alabama Seminary student Jonathan Daniels was murdered by a deputy to sacrifice himself rather than a African American girl. -
Thurgood Marshall first black Supreme Court Justice
Mr. Marshall was the U.S. Solicitor General before he was in the supreme court and that presence showed that blacks were actually getting recognized. -
Assassination of Martin Luther King jr.
Stood on his hotel balcony and was shot by a sniper. It was such a big deal that Congress decided to finally pass the Civil Rights Act.
