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Plessy Vs ferguson
This case is about a black man who refused to sit in a jim crow cart. He was arrested and brought to a judge. His case was then brought up to the supreme court and the judge there ruled that its okay to have segregation as long as its equal.This was a big deal because every other cases like this followed this one and they couldn't get any change in because they all ruled separate but equal. Also every court in the united states had to change to separate but equal and everything became segregated -
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Brown Vs Board of Education
This case is about a man who didnt want his daughter to go to an all black school that was far away when there was an all white school in his community. He made his way up the court system unit eventually he got to the supreme court. They ruled that they violated the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment so they voted in his favor. This meant that every school in the united states had to desegregate. This was a big step for the civil rights movement. -
Emmett Till
Emmett Till was a 14 year old boy who went down to mississippi to visit his uncle.He "whistled" at a white woman in a store, 4 days later her husband and her brother took him out to the riverbank and brutally beat him and killed him.They could only identify him because the ring on his finger. These men were tried and found not guilty. Emmett Tills case was so public because his mother had an open casket for everyone to see what they had done. This sparked blacks all around to stand up for rights -
Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat.
Rosa Parks was a black woman in Montgomery, Alabama who refused to give up her seat on the bus for a white person. She was arrested but because of her actions civil rights leaders used that as a way to start a great movement. They started to boycott the buses and carpool or walk wherever they needed to go. People around the united states saw this and started to do the same thing. Eventually they were able to get equal rights in riding the bus after a year. -
Little Rock Nine
Once the schools had to desegregate because of the brown Vs board of Education a lot of white people didn't like that and most schools didn't even integrate until way after. A school in arkansas name Little Rock high refused to let 9 african american students into their school and they hired people to stop them from entering the school on the first day of school. So the president had to send troops into the school and escort the african americans into the school while people threw stuff at them. -
Temple Bombing of 1958
The bombing happened in Atlanta, Georgia by white supremacists who planted 50 sticks of dynamite in the temples north wing. They did this because the senior rabbi of the church spoke out against segregation and advocated for racial equality. Lucky nobody was injured or killed by the bomb but it did cost over $100,000 in damages, Which is 3 quaters of a million dollars today. People donated money and helped them rebuild the church. -
The Greensboro sit-in
The Greensboro sit-in was a start of a movement started by 4 african american college students. They went into a resturaunt and sat at the "white people" counters and refused to leave. This was important because they were young and they believed they could change the way things were. They were influenced by the non-violent protests Gandhi practiced. They came back the next day with more college students. The event became public and people all over started to do this. -
New Orleans school Crisis
When schools had to desegregated, a school in new orleans refused to integrate and postponed it as long as they could with the help of thousands of angry white parents. They go to the governor of the state and ask them to shut the school down but it fails. The presidents send in troops to help the students in school because they still refuse to allow blacks in them. In the fall of 1960 four african american school girls attend the school being escorted in by US marshal. -
Albany Movement
The Albany Movement was a desegregation campaign. The people in it challenged all forms of racial segregation and discrimination. Eventually Martin Luther King and the NAACP joined in to help. MLK was arrested several times along with many others.They told king if he left they would release the protesters on bail so he did end up leaving albany. Most facilities stay segregated, this movement was on of the few failures among the civil rights campaign. -
Civil rights acts of 1964
President Lyndon Johnson signed a law which stated the segregation in businesses is no longer allowed. So places like movie theaters, restaurants, and hotels banned banned discriminatory practices in employment and ended segregation in swimming pools, libraries, and schools. This was a big deal for people because it allowed blacks more job opportunities and gave them more rights. Some companies didn't agree with this law and tried to fight.
