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Brown v. Board of Education
1) Plessy v. Ferguson
2) Linda Brown was denied admission to the local Topeka school, by Thurgood Marshall.
3) The result was that the Supreme Court ruled, segregation in schools, unconstitutional. -
Emmett Louis Till
1) Emmett Louis Till murdered.
2) This took place in Money, Mississippi.
3) Emmett Louis Till was murdered for talking to a white woman in public. He was a young man that did not know any better and was brutally punished for it. -
Rosa Parks
1) Rosa Parks decided to challenge segregation by sitting in the front of the bus, she was riding while she refused to give up her seat to a white person
2) Rosa Parks was arrested for her actions and this event also resulted in a local organization having African Americans boycott buses across Montgomery. -
Civil Rights Act of 1957
1) President Eisenhower passed the law, Civil Rights Act of 1957
2) The Civil Rights Act of 1957 stated, that it would protect the right of African Americans to vote because Eisenhower thought voting to be a responsibility that should be protected. -
Events at Little Rock, Arkansas
1) Nine African American students were allowed by the court, to attend Little Rock High School, (an all white school). Other whites in the community were very upset and protested/rioted outside of the school.
2) The government protected the African American students by hiring guards to walk them into and around the school. -
Bus Segregation Outlawed
1) Supreme Court outlaws segregation in bus terminals.
2) Bus segregation was outlawed in the state of Alabama.
3) During the time that bus segregation was being outlawed so were many other things including other freedom rights. African Americans and whites were now equal on buses. This event also influenced many similar cases in the future. -
Attack of the Freedom Riders
1) The Freedom Riders were a group of men and women, African American and white that traveled the south to raise awareness to integrate buses.
2) CORE was the organization that helped organize the Freedom Riders. They often recruited people to become Freedom Riders.
3) The Freedom Riders consisted of more than just African Americans. Whites were also recruited or wanted to help with the group. -
James Meredith
1) The Governor of Mississippi denied James Meredith's enrollment to the University of Mississippi.
2) The government got involved by the president sending in 500 US marshals, the Mississippi Highway Control, and the 70th Army Combat Battalion all to protect James Meredith while attending school. -
Medgar Evers Assassinated
1) Medgar Evers was an African American, Civil Rights activist who was assassinated by, white supremacist, Bryron De La Beckwith.
2) Medgar Evers traveled through Mississippi encouraging poor African Americans to register to vote and recruit them into the Civil Rights Movement. -
The March to Washington
1) The March to Washington had many purposes, which were for, freedom, racial justice and equal rights.
2) The famous speech delivered at the Washington gathering was the "I Have a Dream" speech given by Martin Luther King Jr. -
Bruce Klunder Killed
1) The killing of Bruce Klunder.
2) This took place in Cleveland, Ohio.
3) Bruce Klunder was killed because he was protesting construction of a segregated school in Ohio. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
1) President Lyndon Johnson passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
2) The Civil Rights Act of 1964, prohibited discrimination in public places, provided integration for schools, and made other forms of discrimination illegal. This is also known as the Fourteenth Amendment. -
March to Selma
1) The march to Selma was organized because African Americans wanted their freedom and right to vote.
2) The marchers faced the opposition of beatings given to them by state troopers and other angry citizens, in which most African Americans were sent to the hospital and others were injured.
3) The beatings at the march appeared nationally on television and President Johnson became so mad that it resulted to, he created a new voting rights law. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
1) Congress passes the Voting Rights of 1965.
2) This took place in United States. (It did not specifically mention where this event took place).
3) Congress passed this law right after the march to Selma because of how violent and serious it was. -
Vernon Dahmer
1) Vernon Dahmer killed in Klan bombing.
2) This took place in Hattiesburg, Mississippi.
3) Vernon Dahmer, a black community leader, was killed in a Klan bombing. He fought against discrimination and he was well respected for his intelligence, success, and other qualities that allowed him to help others. -
Thurgood Marshall
1) Before Thurgood was a Supreme Justice, he was the NAACP's chief counsel and director of it's Legal Defense and Education Funds attorney.
2) I think this was a monumental event because it was a break through in African American history. It was very important because an African American had never been or would have though to be elected at that time. -
Dr. Martin Luther Kings Assassination
1) At the time Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, black power began to arise, the Poor Peoples Campaign took place and after he was killed there were riots and protests in over a hundred cities.
2) The death of MLK Jr. had such a large impact on African Americans and whites because he was influential, inspiring, and life changing for thousands, maybe even millions of people. He accomplished and sacrificed so much for the movement and the people in the movement.
