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Brown v Board of Education
The Brown V. Board of Education cause was very significant in that it ruled that racial segregation of children in public schools was unconstitutional. It also helped establish helped establish the precedent that “separate-but-equal” education and other services were not, in fact, equal at all. -
White Citizens Council
In the South during the 1950's when African Americans tried to end racial segregation some of the white people didn't take it too well and in response they made the WCC. They would try and destroy the NAACP and attack them while also trying to gain support through a nation wide propaganda campaign. -
Brown v Board of Education II
Even though the first Brown V. Board of Education case made it illegal for racial segregation in public schools many of the all white states did not follow and integrate their schools. So the this court case forced those all white schools to integrate faster and allow black kids to be able to attend their schools. -
Murder of Emmett Till
Emmett Till was brutally murdered in Mississippi for allegedly flirting with a white woman and was then thrown in the river at only 14 years old. The murder of Emmett till was important because it sparked the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement. -
Rosa Parks Arrested
Rosa Parks was arrested after refusing to give up her seat on the bus to a privileged white man in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955. The actions of Rosa parts were very significant because it would then help initiate the Civil Rights Movement in the United States. -
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Montgomery bus boycott
It was a protest campaign against racial segregation on public transportation systems in Montgomery, Alabama. during this time African Americans refused to ride city buses to protest. Few days later Rosa Parks was arrested and fined for not moving from her seat for a white man and as a end result of the protest the supreme court ordered Montgomery to integrate its bus system. -
Martin Luther King House Bombing
Because of his success with the Montgomery bus boycott Martin Luther King Jr's house was bombed but that didn't stop him from his dreams but most likely ended up making him more determined. -
SCLC Founded
The Southern Christian Leadership conference is still an organization that exist today and it was founded in 1957 by Martin Luther King, Bayard Rustn, Ralph Abernathy, and Fred Shuttlesworth in order to have a regional organization that could better coordinate civil rights protests activities across the South. -
SNCC Formed
The SNCC was a civil rights group formed to give younger blacks more of a voice in the civil rights movement. The SNCC soon became one of the movement’s more radical branches. The SCLC helped set up the first meeting but they were concerned that the SCLC was out of touch with younger blacks who wanted the movement to make faster progress. -
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Greensboro sit ins
It was a Civil Rights protest set up by young African American students and so what happen was they would get denied service and they refused at Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina. Soon it would spread through many of the towns and the protesters were arrested for trespassing, disorderly conduct, and disturbing the peace. These protests were significant because it caused Woolworth's and other restaurants to change their segregation policies. -
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Freedom Rides
They were a group of African American civil rights activists who would take bus trips through the South to protest segregated bus terminals. They faced police officers who arrested a few, riled up, violent white protesters, and other horrific tragities along their travels but in the end they drew international attention to their cause. -
White mob attacks federal marshals in Montgomery
The federal government dispatched 400 U.S. Marshals and other armed officers in Alabama to restore order in areas with racial violence due to the freedom riders protest. White mobs were attacking the African Americans involved and also some whites that participated in the freedom rides. -
Albany Georgia “failure”
The Albany Movement challenged all forms of racial segregation and discrimination in the city. Martin Luther King Jr. and the SCLC joined the movement in December 1961. -
Bailey v Patterson
This important court case ruled that no state may require racial segregation of interstate or interstate transportation facilities. -
MLK goes to a Birmingham jail
After Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested and sent to jail for protesting in Birmingham, Alabama and so while he was in jail he wrote a letter to the newspaper on why he had broken the law. -
Assassination of Medgar Ever
African American civil rights leader Medgar Evers was shot to death by white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith in his driveway outside his house in Jackson, Mississippi. -
March on Washington “I have a Dream”
The March on Washington was a massive protest march that happen in 1963, when about 250,000 people assembled in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. The protest was made to continue challenging the inequalities faced by African Americans and it was also the place where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous "I have a dream" speech. -
Bombing of a church in Birmingham
The bombing occurred when a bomb exploded before Sunday morning services at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. Because of this bombing four young girls were killed and many other people injured. -
Assassination of John F. Kennedy
President John F. Kennedy was assassinated after traveling through Dallas, Texas in an open top convertible by Lee Harvey Oswald. After this tragic event a couple days later Vice President Lyndon Johnson was sworn into office and became the 36th president of the United States. -
Freedom Summer
It was organized by CORE, and many other civil rights organizations the purpose of the Summer Project was to at increase black voter registration in Mississippi, but the KKK, police, and state authorities sent out series of violent attacks against the activists. -
24th Amendment
The 24th Amendment was very important at this time because it would ban poll taxes set by a states because these poll taxes were aimed on preventing African Americans from voting even after the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was passed. -
Killing of Goodman, Chaney, Schwerner
The bodies of three civil rights workers whose disappeared on June 21 brought national attention as they were found buried in Philadelphia, Mississippi. Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman, both white who had traveled to help organize civil rights efforts on behalf of the Congress of Racial Equality. -
Assassination of Malcolm X
Malcolm X who was an African American nationalist and religious leader, was horrifically assassinated by rival Black Muslims while addressing his Organization of Afro-American Unity at the Audubon Ballroom. The tragic death of Malcolm had many people shook because he was a very important figure during the civil rights movement. -
Selma to Montgomery March
The Selma to Montgomery March was apart of a series of civil rights protests that occurred in 1965. Protesters would march a 54-mile route from Selma to the state capital of Montgomery were they were confronted with deadly violence from local authorities and white supremacist groups. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Because of President Lyndon B. Johnson and civil rights activist in 1965 the Voting Act of 1965 was signed and it aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote as guaranteed under the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. -
Black Panthers Formed
The Black Panthers was a political organization founded in 1966 by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale to challenge police brutality against the African American community. They would organize armed citizen patrols in any cities across the U.S. but the organization declined after international tensions and encounters with the FBI. -
Assassination of MLK
On April 4, 1968 Martin Luther King Jr, leader of the civil rights movement, founder of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and Baptist minister was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee leaving many African Americans shocked in rage and anger. -
Assassination of Robert “Bobby” Kennedy
Bobby Kennedy was shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles after winning the California presidential primary. Bobby Kennedy was shot several times by the 22-year-old Palestinian Sirhan Sirhan.
